At this year Siri will have a competitor: Microsoft has officially unveiled Cortana for iOS [video]

Microsoft officially confirmed that the voice assistant Cortana, available on smartphones with Windows Phone, will appear on a mobile platform iOS. The intelligent technology is designed to compete with personal assistant Apple Siri. In addition to smartphones and tablets epplovskih Cortana ported to devices with Android.

Although fully match the functionality of the Windows version and Windows Phone function on other platforms can not, they will receive support notifications. There are reports of sports events, weather forecasts and other types of notifications, available on Windows.

On Windows 10 Insider program participants in the coming weeks will be available to the application Phone Companion. Its functionality for leading mobile operating systems will cut down compared to the "tiled" OSes, but so fans of Google and Apple will be able to associate your computer for Windows and your smartphone. Working on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, the application will allow users to sync photos, audio and other content.

So Microsoft is another step towards the spread of its software platforms competitors, which has access to more potential customers.

Release Cortana for Android will be held in late June, the version for iPhone will debut later this year.