[Software] Microsoft continues to bet on Cortana and launches a separate application to the Windows 10 store

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For some time now, the digital voice assistants that part of the large technology firms have been launching for their clients, products and platforms, have been growing exponentially, both in quantity and functionality, although some proposals are more successful than others. .

One of them is the one offered by the software giant, Microsoft with Cortana, an intelligent assistant that we can find as part of one of the company's star products, we refer to Windows 10. Of course, seen what we have seen and in Based on the latest movements that the Redmond-based company has been making these months ago, it seems that Microsoft wants to further empower and try to get its assistant to everyone, in the same way that they are doing with their own proposals, firms such as Google, Apple or Amazon.

 

 

It should be said that these companies that we mentioned, giants of the size of Google or Amazon, are bringing their own digital assistants to all kinds of devices to help users' day-to-day lives. In parallel, what Microsoft intends with Cortana, something of which it has given much evidence, is to bring its assistant closer to consumer-oriented products, something for which its operating system, Windows 10, is very important.

In fact, and to highlight all this, it has just been announced that Microsoft itself is beginning to make available to everyone a new application belonging to the aforementioned assistant Cortana, all available in the official Windows 10 store, Microsoft Store. We can also verify that this new UWP app comes with a label that shows that it is a Beta version, which makes us indicate that its development is being carried out independently of the Windows 10 updates.

Microsoft won't give up on Cortana and releases a standalone UWP app

 

This is a somewhat significant fact because it will possibly allow the Redmond firm to launch updates and improvements for the aforementioned Cortana assistant with a faster cadence than before, all by not directly depending on those that are reaching the entire set of Windows 10.

Of course, it must be taken into account that this Beta version of Cortana is in full development at the moment, so the functionality that it presents at the moment is very limited, although it is expected that it will increase over time. Thus, users who wish to take a look at this new independent app from Microsoft's assistant can do so from here, as long as they have Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher installed on their compatible computers.

In this way, this step could be considered as a movement by the Redmond firm to empower and ensure that Cortana continues to grow, as the rest of the firms are carrying out with their proposals of this same type.