It is named after Cortana, a synthetic intelligence character in Microsoft's Halo video game franchise originating in Bungie folklore, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version. It has been launched as a key ingredient of Microsoft's planned 'makeover' of the future operating systems for Windows Phone and Windows. 1.4 Cortana as an enterprise-only featureĬortana was demonstrated for the first time at the Microsoft BUILD Developer Conference in San Francisco in April, 2014.
