Microsoft is offering Amazon Echo speakers in its stores

Microsoft's developing association with Amazon's Alexa currently stretches out to its stores. WalkingCat and others have seen that Microsoft is conveying both the new Echo Dot and the customary Echo in its on the web and retail locations. The organization isn't simply supporting Alexa, at that point - it's urging you to become tied up with Amazon's biological community.

The expansion mirrors Cortana's changing job at the organization. Where Microsoft initially pitched Cortana as an immediate contender to other standard voice collaborators, it has moved the AI assistant's concentration toward chatbots and behind-the-scene assignments that are more helpful to the corporate group than home clients. The VP responsible for Cortana, Javier Soltero, is allegedly leaving Microsoft as the organization moves its colleague from its AI group to its Experiences and Devices gathering. Until further notice, Alexa has all the earmarks of being Microsoft's voice collaborator of decision for ordinary clients.