Cortana , personal assistant service from Microsoft that is touted as a competitor to Siri and Google Now , to be present on the Windows Phone 8.1 update .
The news comes from a source familiar with Microsoft's plans related to these services , as cited by The Verge . Cortana whose name is taken from the Halo game characters eventually going to replace the function of the built -in Bing search on Windows Phone 8.1 .
" Display " is not a character called Cortana woman suspected all along, but the icon is animated . Cortana will run animation while " talking " or " think " so as if to indicate a form of personality , similar to Siri .
As with Siri , Cortana could be set to use a particular call to the owner of the phone in question . He , for example , the user can call by name " Master Chief " ( the main character in the Halo games ) after activating the function in the settings menu .
The news comes from a source familiar with Microsoft's plans related to these services , as cited by The Verge . Cortana whose name is taken from the Halo game characters eventually going to replace the function of the built -in Bing search on Windows Phone 8.1 .
" Display " is not a character called Cortana woman suspected all along, but the icon is animated . Cortana will run animation while " talking " or " think " so as if to indicate a form of personality , similar to Siri .
As with Siri , Cortana could be set to use a particular call to the owner of the phone in question . He , for example , the user can call by name " Master Chief " ( the main character in the Halo games ) after activating the function in the settings menu .
