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Microsoft Gives Cortana a Bit More Bing

Oct 17, 2014, 2:53 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Microsoft today said it has added several features to Cortana, the voice-activated assistant built into Windows Phone 8.1. One of the new capabilities is called Daily Glance Evening Edition. At the end of each day, Cortana will show users the travel time to home and upcoming items on their calendar. Cortana will also begin to offer concert recommendations within 100 miles of the phone's location based on the owner's artists and Bing searches. Cortana will now more actively create and make available cards with flight information based on travel itineraries and Bing searches. Last, Bing adds location-based app recommendations. For example, Cortana might suggest visitors to Disney World in Florida download the Disney Expedition App. Some of these features need to be turned on in Cortana's Notebook before they'll function.

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Doom Wolf

Oct 18, 2014, 8:02 AM

Awesome!

Way to go Microsoft! I don't own a Windows phone yet, but all these features Microsoft's coming up with make me want to get one as my secondary device.

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