Cortana helps to fulfill the commitments by examining the email

Microsoft announces a further expansion of the services offered via the digital voice assistant Cortana, built into Windows 10 and mobile platforms. Cortana will soon be able to carry out the scanning of email and calendar proactively creating notes and alarms.

Cortana occupies a prominent place among the services developed in person by Microsoft and available for Windows and mobile platforms. A constantly evolving service to its digital assistant of the Redmond announcing a further step forward with the launch of the test phase of a new function with the help of the Windows Insider users, limited to markets in the US and UK. Specifically, Microsoft emphasizes the Cortana proactive approach that, without specific requests from the user, is able to provide alerts voted for the execution of daily tasks.

Thanks to the new features, Cortana will be able to create custom alerts and reminders analyzing the e-mail to remind you to comply with certain commitments. The system developed by Microsoft Research will automatically recognize certain phrases contained in the email and acts accordingly. The mechanism was introduced starting from the fact that the user, sometimes, email promises to perform certain activities (eg. Finish a project) but, because of jumble of electronic correspondence, runs the risk of forgetting the commitments and deadlines. Cortana, with its automatic, comes to the rescue.

Linked to the new feature is also the managing calendar appointments that take place more efficiently than in the past. For example, if someone tries to set up a meeting at a time during which, usually, the user does not work (for example, weekends), Cortana will mark the event allowing you to identify it as a potential problem and offering the option to fasten for a new schedule.

This is just the beginning of a broader set of digital possibilities from server Cortana offers regarding calendaring, Microsoft adds. Power-ups, continuing to build on the benefits deriving from the application of machine learning techniques, allowing you to make more and more like Cortana to a real personal assistant in the flesh that anticipates the needs and user requirements before they are manifested.

Like the other functions of Cortana, the actual opportunity to use the new features is limited to markets in the US and UK, but, probably, it will be gradually extended to other nations. Confirmed, for the moment, the future integration in the stable version of Windows 10.