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Microsoft sets the stage for Cortana-powered smart devices - Microsoft's first moves won't be in the home, it appears, but in the car.
Just gotta wonder.At long last, Microsoft has set a public target of bringing consumer devices—that aren’t PCs—to market in 2017 with its personal digital assistant, Cortana, inside of them.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a way to challenge Amazon’s Alexa-powered Dot and Echo devices, as well as Google’s Google Home. Microsoft’s New Devices SDK will allow to power a new line of connected-car speakers from Harmon Kardon in 2017, executives said, with presumably more partnerships to come...
...The goal, Shum said, is to “democratize AI,” where Microsoft will bring intelligence to as many apps as it can.