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The software maker will debut a smarter interactive personal assistant. June 5, 2014 — -- From Clippy to Cortana, Microsoft has come a long way in its electronic personal assistance services.

At today's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft showed off two ways that Cortana, its smart digital assistant, is going to infiltrate your workplace. If you haven't tried it yet, Cortana is a ...

Microsoft's repositioning of Cortana has been a "journey," to use a favorite company euphemism. And its part of Microsoft's move to turn Cortana into more of an integrated productivity service rather ...

"Hey Cortana, give me a printout of Oyster smiling." It's a joke, couched in a bit of memetic stoner humor, but I couldn't help myself. After all, Cortana -- the digital assistant baked into Windows ...

If you haven’t tried Cortana on the Xbox One, Microsoft would like you take another look. As part of the Xbox One Creators Update, Microsoft’s virtual assistant has received an upgrade, supporting ...

Cortana is the name of the personal assistant app in Microsoft Windows 10. Mark Kaelin shows you how to turn it on and off. When it comes to assessing the effectiveness of these disembodied voices ...

The Invoke is a pretty good speaker, but it’s too early to bet that Cortana will come out on top against the digital assistants Amazon and Google are offering. Harman Kardon’s Invoke is a pretty good ...

If modern virtual assistants were as awesome as this fan-built Cortana device, maybe we'd be more into having them on display in our homes. Since Siri came onto the scene in 2011, many companies have ...