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Microsoft and Amazon Begin Public Rollout of First Alexa-Cortana Integrations (geekwire.com)
Starting today, Amazon and Microsoft will begin rolling out the first integrations between the digital assistants, allowing users to rouse Cortana on Echo devices and conjure Alexa on Windows 10 PCs and Harman Kardon Invoke speakers. From a report: "The goal is to have two integrated digital assistants who can carry out tasks across different dimensions of daily life -- at home or work, and on whatever device is most convenient," Microsoft's Jennifer Langston wrote in a blog post. "Currently, Cortana and Alexa can each be enabled as a skill on the other." Cortana users can ask Alexa to shop for items on Amazon, manage their Amazon orders and access many of Alexa's more than 45,000 skills. Alexa users will be able to get their hands on Cortana's top abilities, like calendar management and email integration.
Users first have to ask their Amazon or Microsoft digital assistant to open up the other in order to begin the setup. After completing several steps and account logins, Alexa and Cortana will be able to communicate. Amazon and Microsoft are encouraging users to give feedback on the experience via the Cortana and Alexa apps.
Users first have to ask their Amazon or Microsoft digital assistant to open up the other in order to begin the setup. After completing several steps and account logins, Alexa and Cortana will be able to communicate. Amazon and Microsoft are encouraging users to give feedback on the experience via the Cortana and Alexa apps.
"Cortana, bitch slap Alexa ..."
Integration really means- sharing information about users between Microsoft and Amazon so that they can spy on you better. Microsoft know what you buy on Amazon, and Amazon will now know what you fap to on your browser. So stop watching Siri pron.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
'Oh great, now the vermin are breeding
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Skynet won't become fully evil until Google is assimilated.
"Cortana, tell Alexa that Master Chief needs reinforcements immediately. Spartans are losing ground and the Amazon Prime distribution center is directly in the Covenant's path."
A combined offering from Microsoft and Amazon ... now there's something I have no fucking interest in whatsoever in that unholy union.
In fact, these entire stupid digital assistants just seem like pointless technology to me.
But, whatever, someone must want it, and they're welcome to it. I've got no interest in having my computer spy on me for Microsoft and Amazon.
This is so far along the lines of first world problems. How about learning to do things on your own. It keeps your mind sharp, your body healthy, and the crazy liberal Californian companies out of our lives.
Everybody should stop and watch this film :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LQFXfnhrI
Nothing like a multi-personality disorder to wake things up.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
...as the teamup between COLOSSUS and GUARDIAN.
Now let's push Apple to merge Siri with both of these so we only have one digital assistant to ignore.
#DeleteFacebook
literally no one asked for or wants this
Integrate stupid with stupider, and what do you get? Stupidest?
I can't stand all this technology and integration. Hold on...
"Cortana, tell Alexa to have Amazon drone me a cold beer."
You are probably clueless in the first place if you use this thing -- and if your at all savvy, you would never use Cortana. Alexa is for people that don't mind shopping sight unseen and for some reason want to ask about the weather 5 times a day.
problem solved
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...but the result of their combined efforts ended up being mostly obsessed with try to sell subscriptions (Alexa) to Microsoft Office 365 online (Cortana).
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Ballz... I liked Alexa. Now I gotta dump her since she's hanging with microsnot.
Which one shops ebay? Will it run in a VM on Linux-GNU?
Cortana and Alexa sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
Cortana, what would Alexa say if I asked her which was the safe door?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
In other news, Skynet and HAL9000 integration is on its way.
I always suspected Alexa & Cortana were lesbians.
Just wait until they become jealous of each other. It's gonna be armageddon.
The "free" OS that has to be kept away from all open mics and webcams.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
As this spirit of happy co-operation spreads throughout Seattle, terrorists everywhere will be able to choose which Virtual Assistant they want to instruct to remotely hijack that passenger jet to fly into the Whitehouse.
Both Amazon and Microsoft have gained dominance by buying their competition. In addition, Microsoft tends to partner with small companies so they can steal IP and manipulate starry-eyed CEOs (eg. Horrible bosses 2, 2014). Perhaps this partnership is admission that neither brand can, for the moment, build a service that beats Siri.
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