Cortana

Microsoft’s virtual assistant, Cortana, is supposed to save you time and help you get things done more productively. For some Windows 10 users, Cortana does the exact opposite—eats up time and reduces productivity. If you cannot get work done

Windows Start Menu is the ultimate go-to for quickly accessing anything and everything you need to get done on your computer. Need to quickly find a file, launch an app, add nifty utilities, or maybe switch user profiles? The Start Menu is the place

Virtual assistants are designed to make our life easy. You can use them to open apps, add to-dos, search the web, ask questions, and much more. But sometimes, they start throwing tantrums (just like humans) and eventually fail to do their job. Recent

Android notifications are a necessary evil of the smartphone era. They act as the message carriers for a number of apps notifying one about important messages, emails, ongoing discounts, missed calls, etc. But most of the times, when you are eng

Smart Homes devices are slowly and steadily finding their place in our homes and arguably add convenience to our lives. But in addition to the price you pay acquiring these smart assistants to grant a modern fee

Windows 10 is now a year older and much more refined than what it was at launch. The past year was a rocky ride for Microsoft, as we saw, with the next year being an opportunity for it to redeem itself again. But that remains to be seen, for now the

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Cortana is here. It’s in Windows 10. Making this the first major desktop operating system to have a personal assistant built in. Yes, you can talk to it (if you have the proper hardware).

Cortana, oh Cortana. She’s pretty awesome. You can ask her to search for things on the internet, ask her questions that she will reply to, set reminders and more. She will do stuff that Google Now does as well. Give you contextual information – a

Cortana, Windows Phone’s personal assistant is programmed to do a lot of things. MS has learned from Siri and Google Now and integrated the best features from both. Thankfully, they didn’t just stop there. Cortana is a beast on its own and it has

If you bought a new Windows Phone or are running the developer preview on your old, yet to be updated Windows Phone, you must have come across Cortana. Cortana is only for US right now, but there are ways to break free. Cortana is Microsoft’s first

After you use it for a while, Cortana’s beta tag seems like a placeholder. Something they can point to in defense if there is any major blunder. After a month in the wild, there hasn’t been any. Cortana beta is awesome.

Microsoft was late to the personal assistant game. Siri and Google Now have been here for more than a year now. Microsoft took its sweet sweet time to unveil Cortana. Turns out that time was not wasted at all. Microsoft clearly kept tabs on both Siri