Microsoft Stores Start Selling Amazon’s Echo Devices

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Stores Start Selling

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’s Echo Devices

Following its partnership with

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to integrate their two Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistants Alexa with Cortana,

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has now started selling

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’s Echo devices in its retail stores.

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’s Echo Dot and Echo devices are available online and in

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Stores in the US, The Verge

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on Saturday.

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introduced Cortana on Windows Phone four years ago. In Windows 10, it became the core search functionality. 

The software maker now appears to be pushing it towards more business-focused areas like chat bots rather than its original consumer-focused launch, the report added. 

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has been increasingly focusing on its

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partnership and Alexa integration, it added.

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and

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had announced to integrate their virtual assistants last year.

The tech giants performed the first such integration between the two intelligent assistants at the “Build 2018” developers’ conference in May this year.

Megan Saunders,

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Cortana General Manager, and Tom Taylor,

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Alexa Senior Vice President, showcased how Alexa and Cortana would work together in the near future.

“For all of you developers out there building skills, Cortana and Alexa will enable access to more people across more devices. And we can’t wait to see what you build,” said Saunders.

While Alexa accepted personal requests, Cortana helped with business needs.

The integration works with the command: “Alexa, open Cortana.”

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