With Windows 10 you can send SMS from PC to smartphone

Microsoft is working on a new feature for its Virtual Assistant, Cortana, who can send text messages (SMS) from a PC to the smartphone.

Among the features that Microsoft could add to its Windows 10 is its ability to send and perhaps even receive text messages (SMS). It is a feature that is used less and less, with instant messaging services that have now caught on harnessing the reach of wireless network connections, but Microsoft does not want to exclude from its latest operating system.

To have revealed this possibility was Zac Bowden of WinBeta, who discovered the feature on the latest beta Insider available through unofficial channels. Windows 10 Insider Preview build 10565, in this case, is a smartphone interface with external enabling to not only send text messages through the virtual assistant Cortana, but also access to desktop notifications of incoming calls missed.

The author describes the functionality: ” Sending SMS is very simple and can be done either with your voice through writing if you prefer. Once sent, the text message will appear on your phone as if by magic and the recipient receive without problems. ” At the moment, it is impossible to verify the operation of the feature as it is required to build the mobile newer than those available officially.

It is undeniable that Microsoft is to work on the functionality, with Cortana, which will gain soon other modes of interaction. We do not know yet if the finding is part of a larger plan by Microsoft, with which the user can interact on the desktop in a more detailed way with what happens on a smartphone connected to the same account.

At the moment, there is no evidence of an integration of SMS and calls on universal applications native to Windows 10, and if there is we could already see it on future builds of the operating system before the release of the threshold 2 expected in November.