Whereas you are able to use voice assistants such as Alexa on Windows 10, still they play second fiddle to Cortana. You are not able to just talk to your computer — you either have to use a keyboard shortcut or click a button. A good thing is that Microsoft may perhaps be somewhat freer in the coming days. WalkingCat, Albacore and rest of them have found out that Windows 10 test releases are likely to present deeper support for third-party voice assistants. You are able to activate apps by having a hotword (counting the times when your PC is locked), and perhaps “replace” Cortana on a system level. Microsoft also split the search text box and the “talk to Cortana” feature on the taskbar in one of the tests.
It cannot be assured that you are going to give Alexa voice commands to your PC from all around your room, at any rate not any time in a short while. We are also not going to suppose that Google is going to leap on this considering its historical bitterness to Microsoft.
An amendment such as this is going to be sensible, though. Microsoft has been preparing Amazon and Alexa as a whole as it puts Cortana from direct competition with rest of the voice assistants to a behind-the-scenes technology. This may perhaps stand for the upcoming logical step, suggesting an option of getting rid of Cortana for all purposes and intents. The company just requires further incentive for you so as to use Windows 10, even though that indicates putting its AI aside agreeing to a very much popular choice.
