Microsoft's Home Hub aims to turn the PC into an Amazon Echo

It has been rumored for some time that Microsoft wants to join the smart home speaker space with a device called Home Hub. A new report has a lot more details, and while it still sounds like a competitor to Amazon's smart speaker Echo and Google Home, it's different in one key detail: it's software, not hardware. According to Windows Central, which quotes multiple unnamed sources, Home Hub is a software update for Windows 10 that will make the Windows PC a bit more like a smart speaker. Microsoft's smart digital assistant Cortana can already answer your queries, even if the PC's screen is locked. The Home Hub is tied to Cortana and takes this a few steps further.