Switching between the Continuum desktop and the phone with the tethered Bluetooth keyboard required me to click the desktop otherwise the input would go to the phone if it was the last thing I was using. While writing this article, I was able to discern some other minor issues with the Continuum setup.

After a few more attempts at poking the bear, it appeared that the bug was indeed random. This time around, the devices functioned perfectly. Just to be sure if this was a definitive glitch or a random hangup, I disconnected the phone while working from the Continuum desktop once again. It wasn't until after a reboot that I was able to use Continuum as intended. After attempting to manually enable Continuum on the smartphone and disconnecting and reconnecting each piece of the setup, the screen did not return. Although the device made a noise indicating it was now connected to the dock, the Continuum desktop did not reappear. When attempting to plug the phone back into the dock, I ran into my first major issue. Aside from a few word endings that I had to correct due to my occasional lack of enunciation on ending consonants, everything came through crystal-clear. I literally used it to write this paragraph, which took maybe 10 seconds of my time. Punctuation was very accurate and intuitive based on the pauses in my speech and my ability to speak clearly.

I continued to write this article with just the Lumia 950 using the speech-to-text functionality. Although this document (the one you're reading) didn't auto-recover to the desktop on the phone, the next time I opened Word from the device, everything was exactly how I left it. To take a break from the grind, I disconnected the phone from the Microsoft Display Dock and took a walk to the store. Send an email,' and was asked follow up questions to determine the recipient, what the email would say, and whether or not I was ready to send or add more to the message. Sending a quick email with Cortana was incredibly easy.

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