Users are waiting for the announcements of new devices. Meanwhile, often the most meaningful innovations are implemented without an accompanying debuts new smartphones hype. Microsoft has added new in Cortana Notebook feature, which was an important step in the direction when a user just asked the technician to do something to get the result.
Microsoft presentations and bright announcement has added to its digital assistant Cortana, a new and quite useful feature. Cortana, as it is known, is designed for Windows 10 running on personal computers and mobile devices. New option “Connected Home” are already available in the settings menu in Cortana’s Notebook and gives users the possibility of voice control of various devices “smart home” from different companies, according to John Callaham (John Callaham) in his article, published resource androidauthority.com.
As reported in the pages of Windows Central, a new section “Connected Home” devices supports Nest, as well as products, which supports the platform SmartThings by Samsung. It also allows you to control the device from Wink, Insteon and Hue. When the support for these products is included in the settings menu, the user has the ability to use a computer or mobile device running the Windows operating system 10 to control, for example, the Nest thermostat, Hue lighting a light bulb or camera-based SmartThings.
Now it remains to be seen whether this interesting feature is enabled in software Cortana from Microsoft, designed for the most popular mobile operating systems — Android and iOS.
One of the reasons why the function of “Connected Home” has been implemented now, can be a training company Microsoft to release its previously announced smart speakers Harman Kardon Invoke, in which the digital assistant has found a use that is Cortana. The new feature Cortana can also mean that the smart column, which is designed as a device competing with the Amazon Echo and Google Home, can be on sale soon. As reported, the new product can advertise on 22 October 2017.
Technology “smart home” are among those who are just starting to get to a certain extent. Unlike computers, smartphones and tablets, this technology requires the cooperation of different devices, including those that initially were not considered as smart devices. In order to control appliances with the help of computers and smartphones, is necessary not only to support the corresponding functionality of the equipment, but also software that enables users to simply and comfortably “speak” to consumer devices. Thanks to software tools technique begins to “understand” human speech.
That software giant Microsoft is focusing its attention as a promising technology, focused more on the future than on the present, is not surprising. Despite the wide spread of mobile devices, primarily smartphones and operating systems designed for them, Windows as decades ago, continues to be the most popular operating system for desktops and laptops. Although many users have already perceived a smartphone rather than a PC as their primary device for Internet connectivity, the role of classical computers is still great.
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