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Microsoft shows how Cortana connects to everyday devices

2017-05-10
hey Cortana what's my day look like I found three events today first up at 9:00 a.m. you have a meeting titled packaging review it looks like you're low on fuel so I suggest leaving 10 minutes early to make your 9:00 a.m. meeting on time also you got an update from Expedia confirming flights and a hotel room right that's the upcoming vacation I have so I better let my boss know hey Cortana asked time away to set my out of office from Monday to Friday okay you're marked as out of office for Monday to Friday your auto-reply message is set and your time off has been entered in the time away system awesome developers can create Cortana skills that work across platforms like this example with the invoke speaker where Cortana is working directly with my works time off system to fulfill my request hey Cortana do I have any other reminders for today you mentioned you would provide a list of designers for review in today's meeting right remind you when I get to the car got it with the device graph I'm able to push this notification to any of my devices so I could push it to my xbox but since I'm headed that way I've gone ahead and set it to my car don't laugh it gets great fuel economy so with the help of Cortana I'm fueled up and ready to make my meeting on time there's an accident on 520 that will make you late for your 9:00 a.m. meeting would you like me to let the other attendees know and connect you when it starts yes please okay I'll let you know guess I spoke too soon hi Laura just a reminder to provide a list of designers for your packaging review meeting as LinkedIn to pull all the designers from my network I found all the designers in your network would you like me to read out the top five or send you a summary send a summary to my product review channel okay I added that to your team channel because Cortana is aware of the device I'm on she's able to provide me with contextually appropriate responses so I can say the best next step hi Laura your meeting is about to start should I connect you yes please hey folks I'm running a little late but go ahead and get started without me no worries Laura we got your note earlier so while Laura joins let me take a second and show you guys around Microsoft teams for those of you that haven't seen it this is Microsoft teams the new chat based collaborative workspace in office 365 and we're in a teams meeting so when I get back to my desk and open up my laptop Cortana is waiting there for me with an action item from earlier in the day when I click on the notification it takes me to outlook where there's an email with my meeting summary it has the attendee list the video links the tabs use and the bot interactions best of all here's my action item I could go ahead and mark it as complete right in the email but I want to dig in a bit more developers could add content to this actionable email or create Outlook plugins like this one from Microsoft stream when I click on the plug in the stream service gives me a transcription of the meeting I can see key points when they were made and who made them this way I can get the context that I need to complete my action item and of course the stream service uses the publicly available Microsoft Translation api's so I could get this in the language of my choice so what you see now show you today our team's and Cortana to services leveraging the intelligent edge and Microsoft graph
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