Here's a first ...

[mark233]

... well, it's a first for me anyway.

Earlier today I placed an order on Amazon. Just about 15 minutes ago I get a notification from Outlook mail on my 950 about it being shipped and the event was added to my Outlook calendar .... sure enough there's the event in my calendar titled, 'Package from Amazon' and it's for this Tuesday the 13th (when it's supposed to be delivered). I thought that was pretty cool

 

[Ejay Lozano]

Same thing happened when I ordered something on eBay. It has it setup on the calendar and on the Cortana app. Great job Microsoft for making us more organized.

 

[EspHack]

in my case cortana just adds the tracking info to its home page, which is very nice

 

[libra89]

That is so cool!

 

[Chintan Gohel]

... well, it's a first for me anyway.

Earlier today I placed an order on Amazon. Just about 15 minutes ago I get a notification from Outlook mail on my 950 about it being shipped and the event was added to my Outlook calendar .... sure enough there's the event in my calendar titled, 'Package from Amazon' and it's for this Tuesday the 13th (when it's supposed to be delivered). I thought that was pretty cool

the account you used in amazon is the same as the account you use on your phone?

 

[mark233]

the account you used in amazon is the same as the account you use on your phone?

I don't have Amazon app on my phone. I do my ordering via my desktop.

 

[Jcmg62]

Are you in the USA by any chance?

 

[Daniel Gilbert M]

I don't have Amazon app on my phone. I do my ordering via my desktop.

I think he meant to ask if you use the same email ID for MSA (outlook) & Amazon.

Because I guess then only, the shipping details get delivered to your MSA (outlook) inbox and it gets added to your calendar.

Don't know if it would work with a secondary account. (Eg: Outlook as MSA and gmail registed on Amazon)

Or does it work with all email ID's as long as you've added them to outlook ?

 

[shmsnh]

Pretty sure you can allow Cortana to read your email. This is similar to how she provides flight details.

I booked my first flight tickets today (since Cortana came to my country), so I'm interested in seeing how it works for me. Maybe I'll find out it only does this for the US, and that will suck.

 

[Jcmg62]

Pretty sure you can allow Cortana to read your email. This is similar to how she provides flight details.

I booked my first flight tickets today (since Cortana came to my country), so I'm interested in seeing how it works for me. Maybe I'll find out it only does this for the US, and that will suck.

I think you're about to find out that Cortana outside of the USA sucks.

I've been using the UK version (which is apparently quite up-to-date) and in 2 years I've never seen Cortana track a flight, package, hotel booking, meeting or social event.....ever

The only thing it does with reasonable accuracy is take reminders. Everything else is USA only. You know, the place where W10M has about a 0.000000000000000000000000001% market

 

[Mach_E]

Pretty sure you can allow Cortana to read your email. This is similar to how she provides flight details.

I booked my first flight tickets today (since Cortana came to my country), so I'm interested in seeing how it works for me. Maybe I'll find out it only does this for the US, and that will suck.

I can confirm this works at least in one other country. India.

 

[Kerry2112]

I don't understand this. I live in Canada and I never get anything like this. I have connected Cortana to everything I can in settings and notebook. How do you get Cortana to "read your email" as Shmsnh put it? I order from Amazon, etc. all the time and I never have anything like this happen. Cortana seems remarkably unaware of my life and unhelpful.

 

[sinime]

It may be a new back-end feature that they just flipped the switch on. I've always had to manually insert the tracking numbers into Cortana. We'll see what happens next time I make an online purchase.

 

[anthonyng]

I found that the stuff has to goto your microsoft account email. I still use gmail and another business imap account heavily and cortana doesn't process them. Once I did forward it to my microsoft account email and cortana picked it up! I kinda stopped caring to change the way I email. Prefer they fix it so cortana can just read ALL emails in the mail app or your connected accounts, it shouldn't matter, the emails are downloaded!

 

[Mach_E]

I found that the stuff has to goto your microsoft account email. I still use gmail and another business imap account heavily and cortana doesn't process them. Once I did forward it to my microsoft account email and cortana picked it up! I kinda stopped caring to change the way I email. Prefer they fix it so cortana can just read ALL emails in the mail app or your connected accounts, it shouldn't matter, the emails are downloaded!

I guess that part of Cortana's functionality might be built into the cloud and your other emails eg. Gmail etc .. since they are not present in the cloud so Cortana just cannot track/read those emails.
Not sure how Cortana works on android or ios. But, my guess would be it wouldn't have access to the native email accounts but only Microsoft @outlook @hotmail ones.

 

[Jcmg62]

I don't understand this. I live in Canada and I never get anything like this. I have connected Cortana to everything I can in settings and notebook. How do you get Cortana to "read your email" as Shmsnh put it? I order from Amazon, etc. all the time and I never have anything like this happen. Cortana seems remarkably unaware of my life and unhelpful.

I feel your frustration. Like you, I've always given Cortana unlimited access to creep through my emails, messages, contacts, xbox and linkedin connections, etc, etc. There is literally not a single piece of data on my phone, surface, band or xbox that Cortana doesn't have access to and still I cannot get it to do more than take basic reminders and tell me the weather

 

[Mach_E]

I have all these permissions turned on though.
Just to mention I haven't taken a flight or train since July, so not sure if anything has changed in the recent builds.

 

[vezycash]

Change country in settings to US.
This did the trick when Cortana first appeared

 

[BonzeUK]

I'm in the UK and only ever had one package tracked. I'm guessing it was an email to my main MS account.
I get stuff from Amazon all the time to my other account and nothing has appeared in Cortana.

Hadn't thought of forwarding the email to my MS account, I'll give that a try.

 

[anthonyng]

I guess that part of Cortana's functionality might be built into the cloud and your other emails eg. Gmail etc .. since they are not present in the cloud so Cortana just cannot track/read those emails.
Not sure how Cortana works on android or ios. But, my guess would be it wouldn't have access to the native email accounts but only Microsoft @outlook @hotmail ones.

I guess they did do lots of bank end changes, dare I say it.... yes I do: it wasn't like that in 8.1 ;D (no I don't miss 8.1)