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See how Cortana acts as a personal assistant inside Outlook (CNET News)

2016-03-30
notice that queer tom has come into outlook and schedule some appointments for me it's the blue with the circle the idea there is Cortana's now in Outlook and she's looking at my email and my calendar with my permission and helping me get things done stay on top of things a good example this week I was exchanging a bunch of email with our Microsoft travel service trying to figure out the best time to get home on Friday Cortana was able to understand that conversation without me doing anything I didn't create an appointment she automatically put all that flight information on my counter to make it really easy for me to track she applies the same conversational intelligence to help me stay on top of commitments and email I get a ton of email which makes it easy for me to forget things I said I would do so here Cortana's flagged something I said I'd send my manager today I was actually gonna get ahead of this on the plane but the siren song of that flight infotainment system got me again no problem Cortana is there and she knows the last time I made an update she knows where the document is I can ask her to go take care of this for me Sen Chuck the PowerPoint that I worked on last night sure thing I found this PowerPoint document is this it and I can go ahead and get that sent since Cortana's not bound a specific device thank you thank you now since Cortana is not bound a specific device she helps me keep track of notifications that are happening right here on my Android phone while I'm doing work on my PC so here I've got a notification a text message that came in from my friend Ben he's here in the bay area I can go ahead and respond right here for my pc port anna knows that i'm talking about meeting with ben she offers to add this to my calendar and then she tells me you got a couple of other things there can I help you move these let's see banner some work-related stuff I choose Ben and what she did there is appointments from noon on Wednesday automatically shift to the appointment the free block of time I had there on Thursday
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