Cortana vs Directory Opus

You can ask Cortana what music is playing and she will attempt to identify it.

Cortana monitors your Bing search history, social network actions, music played, etc to find out what are your favorite artists and will let you know if they plan to play in your area.

Allows customizing toolbars and keyboard hotkeys. Has a full scripting interface that allows in-depth customization options.

Unique Explorer Replacement mode provides a full replacement for Windows Explorer.

Allows batch renaming, viewing and editing file metadata.

This is done with Directory Opus' inbuilt label and its Status system.

Supports SFTP (Secure FTP via SSH, port 22)
Also supports FTP via SSL (port 990) and FTP via with TLS.
Caution: FTP is a paid additive to the product although in relative terms it's not too expensive (around $12).

Supports archive formats like Zip, 7Zip and RAR.

Can easily synchronize files and helps the user in finding and deleting duplicates.

Directory Opus allows users to customize the status bar to display helpful information based on several different factors, including file counts, types, disk space, and others. The status bar can also be customized separately for dual displays.

Available in both 32 and 64 bit versions.

Directory Opus has tabs for each view, which are customizable in size, appearance, functionality, etc.

Directory Opus allows users to create custom filters that can be saved and recalled as needed.

The scripting capabilities of DirectoryOpus extend from version to version. You can do a whole lot of unheard stuff with that.

Custom columns, custom commands, handling events etc. just to name a few things. It even has a GUI editor to allow for custom interfaces for your file management and scripting tasks. Even though mastering it is not easy in the beginning, it's worth it in the long run.

From powerful RegEx renaming to batch macro renaming, Directory Opus can compete with any third party renaming tool.

You can launch via a toolbar button or user definable custom context menu items.

Image marking adds the images you select to a different file, making it easy to sort through a large number of them.

The Directory Opus community has created everything from dark themes to themes emulating other applications.

Directory Opus includes 8 standard layouts, including Commander, Dual Horizontal, Dual Vertical, Explorer, Filmstrip, Images, Metadata and Single. In addition, users can create and save their own layouts to suit specific needs and file processes.

Directory Opus includes a comprehensive configuration backup and restore feature. Users can backup their customized configuration at any time and restore a previous configuration as needed.

Directory Opus includes a powerful independent image viewer with configurable toolbar, menus and hotkeys.

Directory Opus allows users to sort files as they want in manual sorting mode.

Directory Opus allows the user to use a single tree or dual independent trees with the dual file display.

Directory Opus has an option to include relative size and date graphs. These can be displayed independently, in their own columns, or nested behind the size and date columns respectively. They can also be toggled on and off with a simple button as needed.

Directory Opus offers an extension of standard color labeling in the form of status graphics that can be shown as an additional column in the file display. Standard graphics include "Checked" and "Flagged." Users can also create and use customized status labels.

Directory Opus supports both 4K and 5K monitors.

Directory Opus includes integrated image conversion functionality, allowing users to convert images to different formats, rotate and flip images, and resize images. Functionality can be used on a single image or large batch of images.

Directory Opus includes over 150 standard columns in various groups, ranging from "Name and Path" to "Metadata." In addition, users can create custom columns using a script.

This applies to both local and network drives.

Directory Opus users can use vertical tabs instead of horizontal tabs, if desired.

Directory Opus works with the Everything search program. A custom-built script allows users to conduct searches and view results within the Directory Opus file display.

The viewer in Directory Opus supports a huge array of file extensions (more can be added as plugins).
It is even able to show webpages in the viewer, when you select .url or .html files.

The customer support is very good.

Directory Opus has native support for Listary, allowing users to move even more quickly between directories and perform searches.

Lets you write scripts that have their own user interface with buttons, lists, checkboxes, text fields, etc.

Directory Opus offers thousands of user preferences. To help users find the preference they want, Directory Opus offers a search function within the Preferences dialog that identifies and highlights specific preferences associated with the user's search term.

Directory Opus supports TeraCopy.

Directory Opus is able to sync your photos with Flickr.
You can customize which file collections to sync, and the save location for each file collection

Script functions can be written in WSL Script, DOS Batch Mode, VBScript, JScript or directly calling Opus or External applications. /mnt/c paths understood by path fields. WSL mode in Find As You Type (FAYT). Copy path names in WSL format or Windows format.

Since it makes your folder structure rather transparent and allows to easy checks through dual tabbed layout, it helps you to not delete files wrongly.

More often than not, developers reply within minutes (even seconds) on their great forum. Never seen anything like it before.

Ways for sound designers to play and stop audio files for fast previewing.

Directory Opus gets updates all the time -- fixes, significant improvements and often new features are released multiple times a month. Improvement and feature requests by users are taken in consideration and you can often find your bug report resolved or improvement request fulfilled in one of the beta versions that follow soon.