I just checked and my Cortona works just fine with the laptop mic and still works with bing....so who knows?

Perry, does your mic work with bing plug in if you add it..ie do you see the waveform?

Not cortana. We're talking about the built in windows speech recognition. You'll have to test with the actual thing that we're discussing not working.

Point was, my microphone is functioning on my laptop, in both Cortana and works with Bing speech Recognician. I was not implying that Cortana used the speech recognician system built into windows.

Okay good - want to make sure we're testing the same thing

FYI... All my PCs are up to date with all Windows 10 updates and the speech recognition control continues to work fine on all 3 of them...

Check the Microphone Setup button located inside the SR control when you click on the Gear Icon. It at the top when the new window opens. It will take you right the sound control section of windows without exiting ARC. If it's working in there it should be attached and working in the SR control also.

In the past I've had to delete ARC controls (including the SR control) and reinstall them to get them to work. Try doing that if all else fails.

EDIT: I didn't see where Will installed a new SR control and couldn't get it to work. I tried this yesterday and it worked for me in ARC. However I don't think my Windows 10 version is totally up to date. It's downloading an update now.

I just installed the latest EZB on my work computer, a Dell Latitude E6440 which is an older machine. The recognition control works on it. So I am pretty much at the %100 point in believing that the latest Windows update screwed up something for newer computers or at least computers that may have unique driver sets. My Alienware is supposed to be fully Windows compliant but there were other updates that temporarily broke it. Like MS make a patch that works for 95% of the machines then hits the last 5% corner cases at some future point.