

So we’ll be bridging those in thoughtful ways, but we wanted to get started on a core set of first-party things that we can be great at.” “There’s so many things that of course Amazon does well that we’re not going to do, and that starts with e-commerce and all those great experiences.


“It’s not in this version, but we continue to work really closely with Amazon to think about new ways to bring the two systems together,” he said. Few public steps have taken place since then to advance or deepen the partnership. In what may be the largest such partnership in the spirit of a multi-assistant world, Amazon and Microsoft partnered up in August 2018 to make Cortana available via Amazon Echo speakers and Alexa available through Windows 10. Cortana responding to text commands in a dedicated app can be used to do things like start meetings, create reminders, ask for info from some native Microsoft apps, automatically suggest responses, and respond to questions like “Do I have an email from my boss?”Īt launch, Cortana lead Andrew Shuman told VentureBeat the dedicated Cortana app will not respond to Alexa queries. Unlike Cortana in the Start menu or pinned to the taskbar, the AI assistant can now function in a dedicated space users can resize, move, and interact with like any other PC program. Microsoft AI assistant Cortana is getting a dedicated app today for Windows 10 PCs as part of the operating system’s May 2020 Update. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.
