Cortana,
the personal assistant for Windows Phones, has been slated for a UK
release in “weeks not months,” according to Microsoft executive types.
The comments were made by Marcus Ash, Group Program Manager for the Cortana project.
Ash
says the voice-controlled AI should be ready to launch in the UK and
China soon, but contested rumours that the software would be available
for iOS and Android in the near future.
“We are in Beta
and we are in the US and we know before we do anything else we need to
scale and get Cortana out to more customers.”
Cortana was
unveiled at Microsoft’s BUILD conference earlier this year and is
voiced by Jen Taylor, the actress behind the eponymous character in the
Halo video game series. The software is available in beta on Windows Phones in the United States, with worldwide rollout set for 2014/2015.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Microsoft’s Cortana nearly ready for UK launch
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