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Microsoft has this digital assistant that can read e-mail and will have some artificial intelligence. It works with Windows 10 but the surprising part is that Microsoft will make it available for Apple and Google's platforms too.
Cortana will be made available for iOS and Android in an effort to find back to Microsoft's roots of making software that works on all platforms.

That seems to be a sensible strategy.

The next step would be to allow other competitors the right to do exactly the same. Windows has this excluding secure boot that is unnecessary excluding...

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Oh well... I doubt that there are charity motives But I think that Microsoft are doing some sensible business moves lately.

Sure their newfound love for Linux is conditional; they only love it when it is ran on Microsoft platforms etc but still they are making some right moves.

I started out with Windows - and loved it - back in the days where IBM S36 were pretty much the computer alternative. I loved the flexibility and the possibilities that were huge compared to IBM's systems. And nobody could have those IBM systems at home...

The quality was nowhere near IBM but Microsoft Windows did engage people and Made computing everybody's business. So we could replace Commodore 64 with an IBM-PC XT and if we could afford it - a Hercules graphics card

Somewhere along the way Microsoft lost it: Much of it due to an urge to control everything. It started with some copy protection (understandable and acceptable in the beginning) and the final nail in that coffin was Windows 8 with "secure - only use Microsoft - boot".