Windows Phone and the coming of ?Cortana? to take on Apple?s Siri

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Come this April, Microsoft is expected to unveil Windows Phone 8.1 at their Build conference in San Francisco. That OS refresh will be announced on the 18 month anniversary of 8.0, putting Microsoft on the dot for their planned release cycle, one that is expected to be accelerated to 12 months next time around i.e. ?Threshold?.
One of the anticipated features of 8.1 is codenamed ?Cortana?, its namesake taken from the AI assistant from the popular gaming franchise Halo. ?Cortana? is expected to replace (or augment) the current Bing TellMe service found on Windows Phone 8.0. Recently, MSFTNerd, who claims to be in the know about certain Microsoft plans, has made some interesting assertions about ?Cortana?.

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