Cortana

The people of Microsoft are willing to compete with the two big companies of smartphones current, Apple and Google Issue that has led them to develop tools similar to stand up and offer their users similar services. The last to be discovered is his assistant in the Siri style A tool that would be intended to facilitate some processes to the user without having to touch the terminal, just by asking or dictating some order.Something that Google has also developed a slightly different aspect with its tool Google Now, and even Samsung with your S Voice

Apparently Microsoft had already been testing and developing this tool for some time, discovering in some terminals related files Now it seems that the news is confirmed, surprising many because of the name of this application: Cortana And it is that followers of Microsoft will know where this term comes from, being related to the already very famous Halo, a shooting game from Xbox Specifically, it refers to one of its characters, a virtual woman with artificial intelligence who helps the protagonist of this game and who, apparently, will also lend a hand to users of Windows Phone

Apparently, Cortana is being prepared to launch within the next major update of the operating system Microsoft for mobile, which is codenamed Windows Phone 8.1 and is scheduled to arrive in early 2014. In addition It would be a tool connected between the different platforms of Microsoft, also being present on devices with Windows 8 and even the next Xbox One Issues not yet officially confirmed.

The operation of Cortana is not known either, intuiting that, like Siri , it is an assistant capable of serving the user's orders to carry out functions comfortably. Issues that the specialized medium The Verge has been able to verify by obtaining images of the application Cortana in an early stage of development.In them you can see that the application would have information on the weather, notifications, calendar events, alarms and other issues. Functions that Cortana could apparently handle via voice. Even controls about the Bluetooth connection, which could lead to the control of devices outside the terminal itself. Again, ideas that have yet to be officially confirmed by Microsoft

At the moment few details are known. In addition, the leaked images would represent a very early stage of Cortana's development, so its appearance and capabilities will have changed significantly. Thus, all that remains is to wait for official confirmation knowing that, starting next 2014, a new assistant for smartphoneswill come into play to make things easier for users who don't have time to waste moving through the menus of their terminal.