Microsoft’s highly touted
digital assistant Cortana is one of the most talked feature now a days as it
seems that company has bigger plans with Cortana at the helm going ahead.
WindowsblogItalia
has some leaked screenshots of Work Assistant for Windows Phone. When you
have a close look at these screenshots, you will find out that on opening the
app, it shows all your Office documents at one place acting like a hub.
Currently, the Redmond Headquartered tech giant is testing a Work Assistant app that is designed to use Cortana to edit, open and share documents via
voice commands and some more complex commands like email this file to
this person or open the presentation yesterday.
According to the reports,
like Google and Apple products accept voice commands of OK Google or Hey
Siri respectively, for Microsoft the hot word is Office as seen in the final screenshot
of Help topics. Techno God Bill Gates and Julie Larson-Green who is Microsoft's
chief experience officer of its applications and services team is deeply
involved in this project. Last year, Julie Larson-Green said that Cortana will be
available in other operating systems soon and Office integration is one of the
plans for the digital assistant.
According to ZDNet’s Mary Jo
Foley, Work Assistant is being developed by Microsoft’s Digital Life + Work group that is a part of Applications and Services Group (ASG) run by Qi Lu. At a
recent event, Microsoft stated that Cortana will be available to tablet and
desktop with the latest Windows 10 Operating System. It will be available next
to the Start button in the taskbar. So it is easier for users to search for
files, videos and images on hard drives.
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Microsoft has been launching
its apps across all platforms, so it is possible that in future, they may bring
Cortana to iOS and Android platforms as well. Microsoft is slowly turning the
table and surely they will give a tough competition to Apple and Google with
their latest digital assistant Cortana.