In March, the news agency Reuters has advanced that Microsoft was preparing to launch his personal assistant Cortana for operating systems iOS and Android. Today, the company confirmed the information and gave us a first glimpse of how the software will work outside the Windows platform.

The Cortana will come to Android in late June and iOS later, but also this year. A personal assistant will be introduced in both operating systems in the form of app and bear the same requests and questions that Windows Cortana.

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Still, it will not be possible on an iPhone or an Android everything you can do with Cortana in the Microsoft operating system, given the limitations imposed by Apple and also by Google. However, many of the features, such as setting events on the calendar, receive notifications of sports scores and clarify existential questions, will be available.

The arrival of Cortana to other platforms is part of Microsoft’s recent strategy to provide its software for almost all the hardware in the market. A strategy that you feel, for example, Skype messaging platform, the Office suite and cloud onedrive service. All these products and services can be found on Windows, iOS and Android. – Some of them also in OS X

The ultimate goal of Microsoft is to increase their coverage, raising as many people as possible to its platform, even though the terminal is using the another mark.