We live in a world where we're starting to talk to our computers, but it still feels like the device on the receiving end is a machine. Microsoft believes it's begun solving that with Cortana.
The Internet-connected service, which lives inside Microsoft's new Windows 10 software out Wednesday, will be the first assistant at the beck and call of PC users across the globe. It's based on the advanced artificial intelligence character in the Microsoft-owned video game saga Halo, but it's widely available to anyone with the company's new operating system.
Like Apple's Siri and Google's own Google Now service, Cortana lets you interact with a device by talking to it, asking to set reminders, respond to text messages and hear contextual information gleaned from emails and search results, like flight times, sports scores and news headlines.
Microsoft first released a test Cortana for its Windows Phone software in April 2014, but this upgrade will have many more features like its ability to store and remember your personal traits and tailor itself to whatever region you're using it in, so that Cortana in China feels different than the Cortana in Spain. At launch, Cortana will be available in seven countries, including the US, the UK, China, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, with more countries to come later this year.
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