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Microsoft and Amazon collaborate to integrate digital assistants Alexa and Curtana

  The New York Times reported that both Amazon and Microsoft are planning to unveil a new partnership that will allow the integration of smart assistants Cortana and Alexa. It is worth mentioning that the two companies were operating in 2016 last, but through the New Partnership will be able to call people Cortana using Alexa and vice versa at the end of this year, according to the American newspaper.   The executive heads of both Microsoft and Amazon are concerned that their digital assistants will be restricted if they are prevented from working together, as they see you as a unique feature that the other can take advantage of, the paper said Wednesday. As the New York Times reported for the first time, anyone using Alexa would have to say "Alexa, open Cortana" for help with a Microsoft digital assistant, and when he uses Cortana he will have to say "Cortana, open Alexa", and the two companies seem to have We simply created skills on each other's platforms to enable basic integration. This cross-platform integration also allows Alexa users access to more unique aspects of Cortana, Microsoft has built its digital assistant directly in Office products, and now Alexa will get this functionality via Cortana. The New York Times reported that Microsoft and Amazon, including a partnership in May last year, after the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos idea with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadila. "There will be many successful intelligence agents, each with access to different sets of data, different fields and specialized skills, together. We will combine the strengths of digital assistants and complement each other," Bezos said in a press release. "We hope it will be inspiring for them," he said, and Cortana and Alexa's aides will be available later this year, during an interview with the New York Times.