Parallels brings Cortana to the Mac

Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant is making its way to Android and iOS soon, but the software giant has no plans to bring it to Mac. While you might be waiting a long time to see Cortana appear on your MacBook officially, Parallels is bringing the digital assistant to life today inside OS X. Parallels version 11 includes full support for Windows 10, and with it the ability to run Cortana on your Mac. Running virtual Windows machines inside OS X isn’t new at all, but Parallels is using its special coherence mode to allow Cortana to activate itself without the rest of the Windows 10 UI getting in the way.

You’ll need a full copy of Windows 10 to make use of the feature, installed in the Parallels virtual machine, but you can then...

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