A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android

An anonymous reader writes with the news from Venture Beat that a beta of Cortana for Android (long promised) has leaked into the wild via Finnish upload site SuomiMobiili, and from there to others, like APKMirror. From the article: We asked Microsoft where this leak may have come from. "In the spirit of the Windows Insider Program, we're testing the Cortana for Android beta with a limited number of users in the U.S. and China before releasing the beta publicly in the next few weeks," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.

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Stop calling these leaks

[BringMyShuttle]

If it really was a leak Microsoft would call the FBI. This is just PR:

Leak n. a synonym for a public relations announcement, dressed to sound more exciting, but which by insulting the target audience's intelligence ends up irritating rather than fooling them

Re:Cortana?

[Strudelkugel]

It's possible that phone apps are the punch cards of the future. Most apps require a network connection. What if there is a better way to launch and manage them via Cortana and they run on a cloud system, turning your phone into smart terminal? Then you won't care what OS a phone running as long as it can render the information you want. Maybe Microsoft is now thinking "The Network Is The Computer" as Sun did years ago. The approach might work, it might not, but that would be a reason to get Cortana on as many platforms as possible.