Microsoft has a digital coworker it wants in your business: Cortana

Ignite At its Ignite conference in the US on Monday, Microsoft pitched Cortana as a corporate worker, as the software and cloud biz pushes companies to interact with technology via voice. Javier Soltero, the Microsoft corporate vice president who oversees Cortana, suggested that voice interaction has reached the same level of familiarity as interacting with mobile phones. Cortana developers can now build business-oriented skills, with the Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise and if you are granted an invitation. If voice has arrived, passwords appear to be headed for the exit. The code biz revisited chairman Bill Gates's 2004 prediction that passwords are on their way out.