Last August, Microsoft shocked everyone by announcing integration of its Cortana and Amazon's Alexa voice assistants. It was supposed to happen before the end of 2017, but the end of the year came and ...

Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana, began as a peppy AI sidekick within Windows 10, experimented a bit with smart speakers, then went on semi-hiatus as she worked out some things. Now she’s ...

Amazon and Microsoft just combined forces officially, tag-teaming their personal assistants Alexa and Cortana through the future. These two voice-activated smart assistant overlord software and cloud ...

Microsoft in public statements said it's integrating Cortana with its Microsoft 365 productivity apps instead of killing it off entirely, but has shown other signs of pulling back on the voice-powered ...

Cortana, Microsoft’s new digital assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, gets her name from a fictional character in the popular Halo video game series. The game character was voiced by Jen Taylor who, it ...

There has been an explosion in voice assistants — including Apple Siri, Samsung Bixby, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana — to the point that many of us are already using two or more ...

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Five months after they were supposed to be working together, Cortana and Alexa shared a stage on Monday for a joint demo. Cortana, Microsoft's intelligent assistant that operates primarily from ...