Microsoft confirmed Friday what PCWorld’s testing has already discovered: Cortana’s transition to an app in the upcoming Windows 10 20H1 release comes with some big, fundamental limitations. That ...

Q: I recently purchased a new Dell all-in-one personal computer with Windows 10. After a couple of months I feel that it runs much slower than my old tower that had Vista. At dinner with a much more ...

Make the most of your 365 with premium Office apps, extra cloud storage, advanced security, and more. See plans and pricing at Microsoft.com Read now Five years ago, Cortana was going to be ...

LAS VEGAS — Lost in the shuffle of Amazon and Google’s digital assistant showdown this week at CES is another tech giant’s virtual brain: Microsoft’s Cortana. Unlike fellow tech heavyweights Facebook ...

If modern virtual assistants were as awesome as this fan-built Cortana device, maybe we'd be more into having them on display in our homes. Since Siri came onto the scene in 2011, many companies have ...

She was modeled after real-life personal assistants. She is the product of two years of work, and a large team of scientists and product managers. She has video game origins. She is Microsoft's ...

Hey, Cortana: You’re supposed to be making life simpler—at least, when helping people use Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows 10. But noooo. Microsoft just had to muck things up. In a Tuesday blog ...

Cortana wants you to keep your promises. Microsoft’s virtual assistant, available on platforms including Windows 10, iOS and Android, has some new capabilities to help users stay on top of commitments ...

The Invoke is a pretty good speaker, but it’s too early to bet that Cortana will come out on top against the digital assistants Amazon and Google are offering. Harman Kardon’s Invoke is a pretty good ...

When Microsoft releases Windows 10 to the world on July 29, it will introduce millions of people to Cortana, its chatty, voice-activated digital assistant. But not every Windows 10 user will get to ...