What Cortana Needs To Do

[OwenDL]

It really seems to me that Cortana is missing alot of really useful and valuable functions, especially some that she needs if MS wants to make a personal assistant that can compete with Siri and Google Now.

I'd like to get a list going of some of the most useful actions that she's missing. If you've got any, post them!

Read last text message, or all unread messages - 'Cortana, read my text messages.

Read last text message from a specific person -'Cortana, read my text messages from (could make it so you can have her read a certain number of the last texts)

Distance to a location - 'cortana, how far is it to Colorado Springs?' You can kind of get this by asking her for directions, but it's rather excessive and inconvenient.

 

[Keith Brooks]

I've found a area they need to improve. They recently announced you could ask Cortana to sing you a Christmas song. I tried it numerous times and it appears that 4 out of 5 times Bing open's up instead of Cortana singing. As far as texts, she announces when I receive one and asks if I want it read or ignored.

 

[Jas00555]

You can do that last one from Cortana already. It'll apparently take 22 hours and 35 minutes for me to get to Colorado Springs and it's 1446 miles away.