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"Alexa, open Cortana" Microsoft and Amazon team up to integrate their voice assistants

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:54:01 +0000

An unlikely partnership will be coming to fruition by the end of this year when Microsoft and Amazon come together to make each other's voice assistants communicate with its counterpart. Read more...

Amazon to take the fight to Apple with Echo's sequel

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 22:22:02 +0000

According to a report, the smart home appliance that started the fad of home assistants is set to get an upgrade later this year. The design is said to be sleeker to compete with the likes of Homepod. Read more...

Images of HomeHub for Windows 10 leak, showing more information on family-oriented features

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 10 May 2017 11:12:01 +0000

Images of Microsoft's vision for smart home features baked into Windows 10 PCs have been leaked before their likely announcement at Build this week, showing off a slew of new family-oriented features. Read more...

Watch: Microsoft's WinHEC keynote is now available, including Windows 10 on ARM announcement

Andy Weir — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:10:01 +0000

You can now watch the video from Microsoft's keynote this week, at which it revealed plans to bring the full Windows 10 OS to ARM devices with x86 app support, along with other major announcements. Read more...

Microsoft outlines some of its plans for competing with Amazon's Echo and Google's Home

Rich Woods — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:42:01 +0000

At its WinHEC event in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft announced that it is working with Intel on "far-field speech communications", which is the same technology that's used by Amazon's Echo. Read more...

This is Microsoft's Home Hub, coming to Windows 10 PCs next year

Rich Woods — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:04:01 +0000

A new report has revealed details about Microsoft's Home Hub is. It's not a device, but a software feature for Windows 10 PCs, acting as a family-centric hub that includes shared apps, and more. Read more...

Microsoft's HomeHub is not an Amazon Echo competitor

Rich Woods — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:04:01 +0000

Earlier this year, it was rumored that Microsoft was working on a competitor to Amazon's Echo, that would be powered by Cortana. As it turns out, HomeHub is something completely different. Read more...