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How many times have you sent an email to a client promising to finish a project only to have three other projects pile up and put it right out of your mind? But now, Microsoft digital assistant Cortana helps you to remember email promises you’ve made by scanning your emails and prompting you to set reminders.
As part of a series of updates now in beta testing, Microsoft is making Cortana more proactive when it comes to reminders. The digital assistant can now do more than assist with meeting prep, request taxis or track flights or packages.
“People often make promises to do things in e-mail but may forget about them as the days go by and e-mails pile up,” Cortana’s group program manager Marcus Ash wrote on the official Windows blog. “Microsoft Research was pursuing an intriguing and powerful idea around this challenge — automatically recognizing when people make commitments to one another in e-mail messages and providing reminders.”