Microsoft confirms Cortana on iOS and Android – Pplware

Cortana will probably be the most developed personal assistant of today and always said that Microsoft wanted to “invade” the rival operating systems to take the lead in this type of service.

So far there has never been However, an official statement on this will … yes, so far as it is now official. Microsoft wants to Cortana on iOS and Android.

With the Windows 10 Microsoft wants to expand its presence in the competitive systems and it has tried to create applications that will then be able to bridge the gap between different platforms, to conquer more markets.

The Cortana was a question that many had because Microsoft could “attack” what Siri has tried to build on iOS and Google Now on Android. It’s official, the Cortana really want to rub shoulders with these two services and already very soon. This application, which must be installed manually, able to give the user a user experience similar to what we have today in Windows Phone.

There are no concrete dates for this provision, but it is expected that later this year, probably with the release of Windows 10, the Cortana start to appear in stores of Apple and Google systems.

Windows 10 is intended as a unifying many concepts. Aims to be the bridge between old hardware, modern, plan to arrive with services to other operating systems and, above all, it aims to create ecosystems. But not only!

For this bridge, this union and to connect devices that support all these concepts Microsoft is preparing the arrival of a new application, ‘Phone Companion’, but here too there will be talk about a new movement “tentacular”.

It is through Phone Companion that you can make a direct connection between mobile devices and Windows 10, trying to install the necessary applications and also synchronize all your documents and images.

For now these two new features were still only made by Joe Belfiore, but are in the immediate plans for release.

This interconnection is part of what Microsoft hopes will be the ecosystem of Windows 10, which confuse with the competition and that will give the user a single, global user experience.

To have access to these new features, including the Phone Companion, users must be registered with the Insider program and have Windows 10 installed on one of their machines.

Microsoft will try to bring the news to Windows 10, putting them accessible to all who want to test.