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Microsoft, Amazon Miss Deadline to Bring Cortana and Alexa Together

Microsoft, Amazon Miss Deadline to Bring Cortana and Alexa Together 656g5h

By Sumit Chakraborty | Updated: 3 January 2018 13:24 IST

Highlights

Microsoft-Amazon partnership was first announced in August 2017
Microsoft, Amazon will make Cortana, Alexa work on each other's platforms
Amazon also open to the idea of partnering with Google and Apple

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At the time of the announcement, Microsoft and Amazon said that s will have to say 'Hey Cortana, open Alexa' or 'Hey Alexa, open Cortana' in order to use the feature. Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa are competitors in the AI-powered digital assistant segment. However, the move to make the two digital assistants talk to each other espoused ideas for wide-scale adoption of the same for other assistants as well. The decision to integrate Cortana and Alexa will enable Amazon to access Windows 10 in the desktop space and Microsoft will get Cortana on Alexa-enabled devices.

"With Alexa as a guest on Cortana, Cortana s will now have another way of making their lives easier with a great shopping experience," Microsoft had said. It added, "With Cortana as a guest on Alexa, Alexa s will have access to some of Cortana's most useful productivity capabilities that help people stay organised and on top of what's important to them."

The unique partnership was announced by Amazon's Satya Nadella in an interview with The New York Times. Bezos had said that Amazon is open to the idea of opening Alexa assistant to other rival AI assistants, though it had only approached Microsoft until then. He had added that there is no clarity on whether Google and Apple would be interested in integrating digital assistants on their respective mobile operating systems. As of now, Amazon and Microsoft are the only two companies that have opened their voice-enabled virtual assistants that be accessed by third-party companies in their smart speakers.

Microsoft already has a tie-up with Alexa for its Bing search engine. Amazon and Microsoft's partnership makes sense because they have been trying to take on the Google Assistant.

For the people who have been waiting for the unveiling of the new feature by Microsoft and Amazon, the missed deadline will not come as not good news. However, according to a report in Thurott.com, both the companies have said that they are working on the feature and it will be rolling out soon.

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