Will Cortana change its name to Microsoft 365 Assistant, built into Teams?

Cortana is one of the earliest AI assistants to be released, but so far Microsoft has not brought as much success as expected. The death of Windows Phone and very few people using Cortana on the desktop made Redmond unable to delay further core and comprehensive change plans to 'save' this project.

Microsoft's idea in the near future is to gradually shift Cortana's focus from a virtual assistant platform that enhances the user experience to a productivity productivity tool. In keeping with that vision, Redmond is likely to change its name from Cortana to Microsoft 365 Assistant in order to bring users to the famous work support tools in the Office 365 platform.

The current name of the virtual assistant Microsoft - Cortana - comes from a character in the famous video game Halo. This name is no longer suitable when the tool gradually turned in the mind to become a job support service. At the same time, Cortana's feature set is currently primarily related to Microsoft 365 services, in other words, Cortana will become a 'skill' for Office 365 service users, users can use Cortana to call , order, ask for information with Microsoft's service pack, so the name Microsoft 365 Assistant is obviously more appropriate.

In addition, Microsoft is said to be perfecting new software features related to Cortana and Surface Ear, most likely to be introduced in the first half of this year. In addition, the company Redmond also plans to expand the feature "Play My Email" for Outlook with the ability to support reading information more optimal.

Finally, Cortana will be tightly integrated into Microsoft Teams to provide users with a more flexible user experience, such as sending files or creating conversations on Teams via virtual assistants.