Windows Phone's new Cortana voice-activated digital assistant blends the personality of Siri with the behavioral learning of Google Now. The OS's unique home screen, with live app tiles that are both easier to touch and more informative than the other OS's icons, becomes even more appealing. Wi-Fi Sense and Storage Sense are useful, unique tools. With all these changes, Microsoft has removed most of the barriers to Windows Phone's widespread adoption.
Cortana The aim of Cortana, Microsoft's digital-assistant answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now, is to incorporate only the best features of both. Cortana, based on the female AI character in the Halo videogames, also replaces the woefully limited search features of Windows Phone 8. The previous search functionality was just a Bing Web search. Cortana can actually search within the phone for settings and apps (and run them). But Cortana is so much more than just phone search.
Cortana will also (with your permission) scan your email to, for example, find flight reservations and notify you if there's traffic or a flight delay. Cortana gives you more control over privacy than Google Now does, because you decide what personal information to share with her. You do this by entering your interests, locations, and relationships in your "notebook." Microsoft got this idea of the personal assistant keeping a notebook from actual human personal assistant professionals.
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