Microsoft reveals Cortana will focus on business users in the future

Earlier, Microsoft has announced that it will no longer provide digital assistant applications for smartphones, Microsoft Cortana. Microsoft has admitted that it has not achieved results in the digital assistant market.

The good news is that on the desktop platform, Microsoft will continue to provide Cortana to users, and Microsoft is currently rebuilding Microsoft Cortana very thoroughly.

Simply put, it is Microsoft that adjusts Cortana’s purpose and development direction, so there will still be a big difference between the future Microsoft Cortana and the version we currently use.

Recently, Microsoft has also revealed the future development direction of the desktop version of Microsoft Cortana, the key content is to help users improve productivity rather than as a small information assistant.

In the current version, Microsoft Cortana analyzes user conversations through artificial intelligence to provide a variety of comprehensive services.

At the same time, it can also be used for home connections to organize and synchronize data. Of course, Microsoft also cooperates with other companies to provide more localization functions for the Cortana desktop version.

For example, the cooperation between Microsoft Cortana and NetEase Cloud Music allows users to listen to songs and recognize songs. These are called skills that Microsoft can improve the usability of Microsoft Cortana.

But the most important thing for Microsoft is productivity. At present, many smart speakers for home users provide questions, chat, songs and storytelling.

At least now Microsoft has no interest in developing such features, so Microsoft has decided to delete all skills such as music, jokes, and third-party cooperation.

The new version of Microsoft Cortana is currently only available in the US market. Other countries and regions and other language versions of Microsoft are not yet complete and cannot be provided.

Cortana now helps users create and query calendars, create notes and reminders, add status reports to personal task lists, and more.

Based on Bing ’s web search results, Microsoft Cortana will still provide things like web queries, setting alarms, jokes, querying the weather, and other searchable content.

In addition, the new version of Microsoft Cortana also supports users to talk directly to Cortana, such as chatting, other functions, and third-party skills are no longer provided.

Microsoft will continue to provide more new features for Cortana in the future, but these features will focus on helping business users improve productivity.