Microsoft Confirms Cortana Is Heading To Android In June, iPhones 'Later This Year'

In yet another example of Satya Nadella's prudent strategy to bring Windows services to other platforms, has confirmed it's getting ready to make its digital assistant Cortana available on iOS and Android in the coming months, though it comes with a caveat. The company will be releasing a companion app in late June for Android that gives access to content from a required Windows 10 PC, Microsoft said in a blog post Tuesday. The app gives those non-Windows Phone users access to content from the PC like their OneDrive pictures, and as a bonus it also includes mobile access to Microsoft's desktop app for its virtual digital assistant, Cortana. While the requirement to have a Windows 10 PC seems like a big catch, Microsoft is still proving to be a more open distributor of its services than and, whose digital assistants Siri and Google Now only work on Android phones and iPhones. In other examples of Nadella's more open strategy, Microsoft last year brought its Office Suite to the iPad, while its first wearable device, the Microsoft Band, works with Windows, Android and iOS devices.