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Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, recently announced that the company considers itself to be beaten in the competition between the virtual assistants of Amazon, Apple and Google. Instead of continuing to work on Cortana, Microsoft’s in-house virtual assistant will in future only be able to be used for Alexa and Google Assistant via one skill. As reported on the website tt.com
reported, Microsoft announced this decision during a press event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond.
A corresponding cooperation with Amazon was already announced by the Windows manufacturer last year. Although the integration of Cortana into Alexa has not yet been completed, Microsoft is currently in negotiations with Google in order to offer owners of a Google Assistant the opportunity to access Cortana as soon as possible.
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