One of the most identifying characteristics of Windows Phone is Cortana, Microsoft's version of a virtual assistant that's reminiscent of Apple's Siri and Google Now. Now, however, the software giant is bringing that friendly Halo-inspired voice to the desktop as well, further unifying the experience between all of Microsoft's products. Just as early versions of Windows 10 showed, you can use Cortana on the desktop to do all kinds of things from making calls on Skype to adding appointments to the calendar. In a demo of an early build of Windows 10 on stage, Joe Belfiore, Corporate VP of the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, demonstrated that Cortana could tell him the weather, predict the Super Bowl (with a nod to local Seahawks team, of course), set a reminder and dictate a message. The speech recognition even recognizes "hashtag" as the # symbol. It's also learned some languages plus the ability to speak in, uh, Yoda's voice.
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