Helping you keep your commitments
Little by little, Microsoft is expanding its Cortana digital assistant to do new things in Windows 10. One of those new things is the ability to scan your emails for certain phrases, ones that might indicate a reminder would be helpful.
According to The Verge, its part of a new commitment option in Cortana for Windows 10 thats available to Windows Insiders. Its not all that different than flight and delivery tracking, both of which Cortana already does, but in this case Cortana will set reminders to help you keep commitments you might have promised, like telling your boss youll have that financial report ready by Thursday.
"Cortana will look for emails where youve said youre going to do something," Microsofts Marcus Ash told The Verge.
The email scanning for commitments is performed on a local level; data only gets sent to Microsoft if you choose to add a reminder for a particular commitment or event. On the flip side, if youre worried about the functionality being abused and pushing aside your privacy, you can disable the feature altogether and Cortana wont peek at your emails.
Its just one of many ways Microsoft is working to make Cortana more than a novelty or afterthought. In addition to helping you remember commitments, the new version released in the latest Insider build alerts you if you receive a meeting request that runs outside the times you normally schedule meetings.
Both features are available now to Windows Insiders for testing before rolling out to the general public.
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