Microsoft teams up with NORAD once more to help you keep track of Santa!

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   You might have had the chance to discover the absolutely cool and great NORAD Santa tracker web site previously and now we are glad to inform you that the collaboration between Microsoft and NORAD goes on and the new version of the website is already live coming up with a range of new games, new features and new details that are meant to make your fun complete and unforgettable!

   Thus according to the official Microsoft blog,

“A holiday staple for nearly 60 years, NORAD Tracks Santa allows millions of people every year to watch Santa as he makes his annual trip around the globe. This year’s site – built as part of the Internet Explorer campaign to Rethink what the web can be – features a brand new set of games, improved performance, and an optimized mobile experienced, in addition to the ability to track Santa with the help of Bing Maps.”

   So “Claymation” holiday style is what welcomes you at the first sight accompanied with the cool graphics and awesome experience.

   Also, you may now follow the journey of Santa around the globe enjoying the responsive design of the website with the help of which the availability of the website expands to tablets and phones, too.

Great news for Windows Phone users goes far beyond this, too, allowing the owners of Windows Phone to track Santa with Cortana just asking her “Where is Santa now?”

   As we read in the official announcement of Windows,

“The NORAD Tracks Santa experience is part of the IE team’s Rethink initiative, to create real-world sites that push the limits of what is possible on the web today with a modern browser. Check out some of our other Rethink experiences, including CyArk, Hover, and Everest: Rivers of Ice.”

   Thus you should just visit the website and follow Santa waiting him in your town, too!

Microsoft is said to make Cortana available for other platforms

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   Rumours are going round that Microsoft management came with an ambitious initiative to expand the recently launched virtual personal assistant – Cortana across devices, platforms and regions and the evaluation of the merits of bringing it to other platforms like Android and iOS is in process.

    Business Insider reports that Microsoft chief experience officer Julie Larson-Green told a group of journalists and analysts that Cortana could be destined to land on other OSes and when asked whether  that meant Cortana would eventually come to other operating systems, Larson-Green said, "The short answer is, yeah."

    The answer is positive but it’s not a trivial challenge. The experience of using Cortana on a system like iOS or Android would not be as rich or easy as it is on Windows Phone. Microsoft likely won't be able to tap into hardware keys to quickly call up Cortana as it does by a press of the search key on Windows Phone.

    Taking into account all the pros and cons of bringing Cortana to other platforms, Marcus Ash, group program manager for Cortana on Windows Phone pointed that the decision to do so is more complicated that it may seem from first sight. He points.

     "We want to scale Cortana internationally and across devices. The Android/iOS question is interesting. We're asking, would Cortana be as effective if she didn't have access to the details on your phone? We're still trying to get Cortana adopted on Windows Phone and figure out what it wants to become there. But we're actively talking about this”.

    "Clearly we want people to buy Windows, we have a bunch of Windows customers, hundreds of millions that have Windows PCs and would love for them to have a great Cortana experience because once they have that they will probably consider other devices and say 'Well, I want to match them up.' But how do we get Android users or these other iOS users that use Windows to have a great experience?"

    In the process of evaluation more and more important questions come forth. “How Cortana would affect traditional smartphone search?”

   Ash said the integration of the search box and the virtual assistant is the goal, "The search box is what people know. That's why we're trying to bring [it and Cortana] together. The declarative intent of traditional search saves us so much effort - if you tell us what your interest are via search, Cortana gets so much better. We think Cortana makes you more likely to search, it doesn't replace search."

    Want to learn more? Don’t hesitate to watch the video from the SMX Advanced search marketing conference in Seattle.

New custom Cortana ringtones for Windows Phone available

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Cortana gets smarter and smarter and that’s certainly out of discussion! Still, there are even more details and features that you may add to your Windows Phone in order to make it more functional and cool, you can also add a range of new ringtones for your Windows Phone, too, and what’s special about these ringtones is that they all feature the lovely and familiar voice of Cortana telling you specific messages about specific actions like e-mails, incoming calls, and much more.

This has become true due to the wonderful work of redditer clang_ley who introduced the list of ringtones uploaded to his OneDrive. Despite the fact that the ringtones are not HQ as the creator notes, they are quite successful and cool and they really make us wait for some more works and news which do have some promising development prospects.

So you may get these ringtones from the OneDrive account and enjoy the cool features they suggest. 

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Flip a coin or roll dice with Cortana

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If you are in a dilemma trying to choose between two almost equal things and if you have a Windows Phone, then Cortana will be a real help for you in this, too! Particularly, you may now ask Cortana to flip a coin or to roll some dice and easily make a decision about this or that thing. So just ask Cortana to flip a coin or roll some dice and put an end to your doubts and stop wasting money on thinking over and over the same questions.

Cortana unquestionably becomes smarter and smarter and smarter and is now a great company for you no matter where you may go or what you may do. Cortana is always there for you! 

Cortana speaks Klingon!

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Those who are familiar with Star Trek series will certainly understand what the talk is about! In addition, the fans of Star Trek who also have Windows Phones are double lucky-duckies because now they can talk to their favorite Voice Assistant Cortana using Klingon! This is possible most probably because the engineers of Cortana are fans of Star Trek themselves and that’s what Microsoft’s chief envisioning officer Dave Coplin also confirmed!

So all you need to do is to just ask Cortana to “speak Klingon” and she will respond accordingly. In addition, there is a range of other commands and responses within the theme of Star Trek. Even the simple “engage” command is enough for triggering the Star Trek themed responses.

So one more great feature gets added to the list of the top specifications of Cortana making one more important step on the way to integration of Cortana with Windows 10. 

Shazam and Spotify updated once more, Shazam getting Cortana support

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Two most significant apps for Windows Phone, Cortana and Spotify get updates once more adding some cool and useful features to each, one of the most important ones of which is the Cortana support added to Shazam. So all you need to do is ask Cortana to Shazam a certain piece of music you are listening to. “You can now ask Cortana “Shazam this” to instantly start identifying music around you. We’ve also improved performance and fixed a few bugs.” The official app description states.

As for Spotify, it also got some updates the details about which will be available shortly when the official description of the app gets updated on Windows Phone, too.

So go to Windows Phone Store and download these useful apps if you still don’t have them, and if you do, just enjoy the cool new features and specifications. 

Cortana is also going to be integrated into Search in Windows 10

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After the official presentation of Windows 10, many people have many questions connected with the new features and specifications of the newest operating system. And one of the questions refers to the integration of Cortana into Windows 10, in answer to which Tom Warren provided everyone with a slight insight, noting,

“Microsoft’s new Windows 10 OS has a new search button on the taskbar, and Cortana currently appears at the top of that search functionality once it’s triggered. Just like Windows Phone, you can type to Cortana to ask it to remind you to do things, or to search for content locally in apps or on the web. Microsoft isn’t creating a separate app for Cortana on the desktop, it will essentially replace and complement the existing search experience that’s available in Windows 8.”

It is also said that the basic features will be officially introduced next year, to which we are really looking forward. 

Microsoft introduces two more commercials from the Siri vs. Cortana series

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After absolutely smashing the functionality of Siri Voice Assistant in the previous video commercials Microsoft comes up with some more awesome and funny commercials, discovering some new functional advantages of Cortana Voice Assistant against Siri.

So as usual the commercials feature Lumia 635 asking questions to Siri and after getting an “I can’t do that” answer answering them instead.

Thus the first commercial called ‘Remind me’ is sort of a continuation of the previous commercial http://iffaheyy.blogspot.com /2014/09/microsoft-comes-up-with-one-more-video.html" target="_blank">(The Groundhog day) where Cortana discovers that Siri can’t remember things. So here she introduces her function of reminding different things to the user, in answer to which Siri asks her to remind her that she needs an update!

So you may watch the video here: