As early as August 2017, Microsoft and Amazon announced that Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant began to provide Cortana skills, allowing owners of Echo devices to access information that can only be obtained through Microsoft’s own voice assistant service. Subsequently, Microsoft repeatedly delayed the arrival of the integration, and finally released a public preview in August 2018.
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- This feature is activated by using the keyword Open Cortana on Alexa to open a portal to the Cortana service.
- It can also work through Hey Cortana, Open Alexa on the PC, allowing users to access Alexa skills on the PC.
- However, there is always a banquet in the world, PC Mag reported that Microsoft and Amazon have quietly terminated this partnership.
- Microsoft said: From September 18th, we decided to end the previous Cortana on Alexa experience and transfer our Cortana resources to the productivity within Microsoft 365.
- Microsoft has already notified users through the in-product notice before September 18, but because the user base is so small, this has never attracted people’s attention.
- Microsoft said they have shifted the focus of Cortana to enterprise services, but it remains to be seen whether it is widely used there.