![]() ![]() At the Worldwide Partners Conference 2015 Microsoft demonstrated Cortana integration with products such as GigJam. Cortana can find opening hours when on restaurant sites, show retail coupons for websites, or show weather information in the address bar. Microsoft's Cortana assistant is deeply integrated into its Edge browser. Microsoft has integrated Cortana into numerous products such as Microsoft Edge, the browser bundled with Windows 10. Cortana is not used during the new device setup process and isn't pinned to the taskbar by default. Microsoft has also reduced emphasis on Cortana in Windows 11. To access previously recorded content, users have to use Cortana on Windows 10 or another specialized Microsoft application. On March 31, 2021, Microsoft shut down the Cortana apps entirely for iOS and Android and removed them from corresponding app stores. On July 24, 2020, Cortana was removed from the Xbox dashboard as part of a redesign, then on January 31, 2021, Microsoft removed the Cortana mobile application in certain markets (including UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain, Canada, and India). In January 2019, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that he no longer sees Cortana as a direct competitor against Alexa and Siri. Windows 10 users can just say "Hey Cortana, open Alexa" and Echo users can say "Alexa, open Cortana" to summon the other assistant. This feature preview was released in August 2018. In 2017, Microsoft partnered with Amazon to integrate Echo and Cortana with each other, allowing users of each smart assistant to summon the other via a command. ĭuring E3 2015, Microsoft announced that Cortana would come to the Xbox One as part of a universally designed Windows 10 update for the console. It was officially released, along with an iOS version, in December 2015. An Android release was set for July 2015, but the Android APK file containing Cortana was leaked ahead of its release. On May 26, 2015, Microsoft announced that Cortana would also be available on other mobile platforms. In January 2015, Microsoft announced the availability of Cortana for Windows 10 desktops and mobile devices as part of merging Windows Phone into the operating system at large. Expansion to other platforms Ĭortana white interface on Windows 10 Mobile Originally, Cortana was meant to be only a codename, but a petition on Windows Phone's UserVoice site proved to be popular and made the codename official. The interviews inspired a number of unique features in Cortana, including the assistant's "notebook" feature. To develop the Cortana digital assistant, the team interviewed human personal assistants. Some of the key researchers in these early efforts included Microsoft Research researchers Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, and Malcolm Slaney, research software developer Madhu Chinthakunta, and user experience designer Lisa Stifelman. Heck and Serafin established the vision, mission, and long-range plan for Microsoft's digital personal assistant and they built a team with the expertise to create the initial prototypes for Cortana. The development of Cortana started in 2009 in the Microsoft Speech products team with general manager Zig Serafin and Chief Scientist Larry Heck. It is named after Cortana, a synthetic intelligence character in Microsoft's Halo video game franchise originating in Bungie folklore, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version. It was launched as a key ingredient of Microsoft's planned "makeover" of future operating systems for Windows Phone and Windows. ![]() History Ĭortana was demonstrated for the first time at the Microsoft Build developer conference in San Francisco in April 2014. In January 2020, the Cortana mobile app was removed from certain markets, and on March 31, 2021, the Cortana mobile app was shut down globally. It was split from the Windows 10 search bar in April 2019. Microsoft began reducing the prevalence of Cortana and converting it from an assistant into different software integrations in 2019. Cortana is a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft, that uses the Bing search engine to perform tasks such as setting reminders and answering questions for the user.Ĭortana is currently available in English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese language editions, depending on the software platform and region in which it is used. ![]()
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