Microsoft and Amazon launch preview for cross-device collaboration between Alexa and Cortana

Amazon and Microsoft hope you’ll help them teach Cortana and Alexa to play nicely together. Starting today you can sign up for a preview that’ll let you run the virtual assistants on each others’ respective devices. Announced last fall, the collaboration is finally here in limited testing form. Those who opt in, using an Echo, Windows 10, or Harmon Kaidon Invoke device will be able to summon both virtual assistants on their devices. This collaboration includes most, but not all, of the virtual assistants’ features. Users in the preview can access their Office 365 calendar and Microsoft email accounts on…

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