Microsoft smartwatch to launch within weeks, says report

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With Google leading the pack through Android Wear and Apple stirring up a seemingly endless train of hype with the Apple Watch, you had to know that Microsoft was going to put their hat in the ring sooner or later. It looks like a fitness-focused smartwatch from Microsoft is on the way within the next couple of weeks, but it’s probably not time to get overly excited.

Satya Nadella has been making waves and changing things for the better as the new head honcho over at Microsoft, but there’s still a lot of work to be done with Windows. Microsoft wants there to be one Windows experience across every screen, which is the same thing Google and Apple are heading towards at full power. In order for Microsoft to realize this goal, there needs to be a serious focus on actually delivering the visual part of that experience. Where, you might ask, does a smartwatch fit in to that equation? The answer is most likely through Cortana.

Microsoft’s voice assistant software is not leaps and bounds ahead of Siri or Google Now, but the little blue ring can do just about everything the competition can. While things like predicting sports games is something of a parlor trick to most, it’s that prediction engine applied to your daily life that has the potential to make Cortana the most useful virtual assistant…. see more

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