PC hardware is nice, but it’s not much use without innovative software. I’ve been reviewing software for PCMag since 2008, and I still get a kick out of seeing what's new in video and photo ...

Named after the artificial intelligence in the computer game series ... commands when you press the Windows logo key + C. After making these two changes, Cortana is effectively disabled, and ...

As Microsoft continues to blur the lines between its mobile, tablet and desktop devices, the company today announced its Cortana virtual assistant is coming to its PC version of Windows 10.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella walks in front of the new Cortana logo as he delivers a keynote ... Credit: Mashable “Because they were interacting with a computer instead of a person, [visual ...

At dinner with a much more computer savvy friend I mentioned this and he (attributed) it to “Cortana” running in the background even if you are not using it. During setup of my new computer I ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. When Cortana first arrived in Windows 10 preview builds ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft just released Cortana for iOS and Android this week ...

Yet aside from her birthday, today is arguably her most important day yet. Cortana has arrived on the PC, the market Microsoft has dominated for decades. If you look at the desktop landscape right ...

and shows readers how they can use Cortana to restart, log off, hibernate, sleep, lock or shutdown their Windows PC, by creating shutdown, restart, log off shortcuts. UPDATE: Starting with the ...

Back in April at Microsoft’s Build conference it was revealed that Cortana for Android users would soon be able to have their smartphone notifications show up on a Windows 10 PC. Now it seems ...

PC users are going to have a new assistant with the launch of Windows 10. Cortana, the virtual assistant that Microsoft launched with Windows Phone 8.1 last year, has made the leap to the desktop.

Cortana added a lot of features lately and one of them was notifications synchronization. This feature is very useful and comes in handy most of the time. And the best part is, that ...