AI will be a fundamental part for Cortana to offer a better user experience

At Microsoft they are clear that the future of applications depends on relying on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We have already seen it in the case of protection against threats in the form of viruses and malware and now it is the turn of Cortana, the virtual assistant created by Microsoft to compete with Siri, Google Assistant and especially Alexa.

Cortana is one of the pillars of those from Redmond and a good example of the care they take with their assistant is the redesign they are preparing for the arrival of Redstone 4 on PC and how they have optimized its use on the portable platform.And to make Cortana even better, AI looks set to be critical.

We have been able to verify this at an event dedicated to artificial intelligence in which those from Redmond have highlighted the importance of Cortana and how both the assistant, how the services of Office 365, you will see great improvements coming through the use of AI.

This highlights, for example, the possibility that we have with Cortana to establish a much more natural conversation Interaction with the user will be improved in a more that Cortana will be able to understand the context of the conversation and link messages in a much more natural way.

In fact, from the second 40 of the video, we see how this new way of proceeding by the virtual assistant is revealed thanks to the use of Artificial Intelligence. Cortana will understand the context and will make recommendations and advice to improve our daily activity.

Office 365 enhancements

Not only Cortana will benefit from the arrival of Artificial Intelligence and thus we will see how Office 365 also sees improvements arrive. What's new debuting in a preview of Insights in Excel with new functionality to discover trends, outliers, and other useful visualizations in spreadsheets.

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This is Preview, a new service that automatically highlights patterns it detects, making it easier for everyone explore and analyze your data."

Word for its part will see how Artificial Intelligence arrives to help users make use of acronyms. A new Microsoft Word feature called Acronyms Based on machine learning, Acronyms helps people understand terminology commonly found in their own workplaces.

Outlook will also improve its operation with the help of Cortana Thus the virtual assistant allows users to help keep up-to-date and for example To manage appointments, Outlook will now send a notification with directions for both driving and public transportation taking into account your current location, event location, and real-time traffic information.

The ability to automatically extract text from imagesalso makes it easier to find a wide range of content, including receipts and credit cards. visit. Text to Image Search is currently rolling out and will be available to all commercial Office 365 subscribers by the end of December.

It is clear that the future passes through Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft is clear about it. We will see new developments in 2018 and we will be here to tell you about them.

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