Amazon may bury Cortana if the hints come true and we can use Alexa by default in Windows 10

If there are two segments in which Microsoft hasn't done as well as it should in recent times, those are Windows for mobile and Cortana. There is little to say about the first that has not already been commented. Not even the company itself bets a single penny on a dead platform much sooner than he althy competition would have wanted.

On the other hand Cortana, Microsoft's personal assistant that arrived to compete with Siri, Google Assistant and especially with Amazon's Alexa .And while these are growing at a good pace and in the case of Alexa at supersonic speed, Cortana is stagnant (despite Microsoft's attempts) and we could almost say that she is going downhill to the point that she is already cohabiting with her most intimate enemy.

Although Microsoft said at the time that there was no fear of Amazon and Alexa, the truth is that putting a rather weak Cortana and an increasingly stronger Alexa under one roof could not have been a good idea.

We have seen how some computers already come with an app to integrate Alexa in Windows 10. If Cortana users were few, then we added the possibility of using a much more complete and competent assistant. Would anyone notice the ugly duckling?

For now Cortana's only salvation is that she was the default assistant in Microsoft Teams, something that may change with the great update coming in spring.And it is that the Builds launched in the 19H1 branch continue to leave clues of what we can find.

And again it has been the user Albacore (@thebookisclosed), who has echoed another change that could come, a quite relevant change. Windows 10 could offer the user the option to determine which assistant they want to use, so Cortana would lose the uniqueness she has so far.

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To do so, attach an image to your Twitter account in which you can see how in the Configuration Panel we could select which application can be activated by means of verbal commandsIt&39;s currently Cortana, but with Alexa built into Windows… white and in a bottle."

The truth is that Microsoft is changing We don't know if for better or for worse, but something is flowing in the American company. In the end, they have succumbed to Chromium as the basis for their Edge browser, left Windows Phone aside and have become strong launching apps for Android and iOS and now Cortana may be the next victim.We'll see how it all ends, but now that I had started to speak Spanish….

Source and image | Twitter Albacore