Microsoft's Cortana now picks NFL football winners, too

Fresh off a nearly perfect run predicting the outcome of World Cup futbol matches, Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, has focused her abilities on picking the winners of NFL football games. Need help predicting whether or not the Seahawks will hold off the Green Bay Packers? The kicker, of course, is that you'll need access to Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant. And for right now, that means a Windows Phone 8.1 phone, either one that's been upgraded via Microsoft's developer program or as part of the "Cyan" rollouts that Microsoft and its carriers are pushing to vanilla Windows Phone 8 Lumia phones. For one, asking Cortana about the outcome of a particular game is a bit like a magic spell: You'll need to ask Cortana "Who will win Team A or Team B?" and she will provide an answer.