YouTube/calloftreyarch Cortana is a disembodied voice on WP8 based on the Halo character Windows Phone is still a distant third to Apple and Android in the smartphone market, but Microsoft is hoping to change that with the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1— and more importantly its personal digital assistant Cortana. Microsoft claims that Cortana isn’t like your average virtual assistant

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Microsoft Tells Us How It Created The Virtual Assistant That Could Blow Siri And Google Now Away