Hands On With Cortana, Windows Phone’s New Digital Assistant

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Microsoft introduced Cortana, the company’s long-rumored answer to Siri, at its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco Wednesday.

The service, which Microsoft is billing as the first “true” personal digital assistant, is similar to Siri and Google Now, but emphasizes developing a relationship.

“Powered by Bing, Cortana is the only digital assistant that gets to know you, builds a relationship that you can trust, and gets better over time by asking questions based on your behavior and checking in with you before she assumes you’re interested in something,” said Belifore in a blog post. “She detects and monitors the stuff you care about, looks out for you throughout the day, and helps filter out the noise so you can focus on what matters to you.”

While we didn’t have time to develop a relationship with Cortana in the time we spent with her this afternoon, we got to know her a little bit when we went hands-on with a Nokia phone running Windows Phone 8.1 at Build. Here’s what we found:

Reminders

Like Siri and Google Now, Cortana is really good at setting reminders. But Cortana appeared to be a little better at discerning natural language then Siri. And she has more options when making them: Reminders can be tied to a time, a place or even a specific person…. see more

source: mashable

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