Last year, in August 2017, Microsoft and Amazon jointly announced that their respective virtual personal assistants, Cortana and Alexa, would be joining forces. This would allow for users to be able to use the other assistant where the normal assistants are normally present. For example, Cortana would now be available as a guest on Amazon Echo devices, while Alexa would do the same on Windows 10 devices. Microsoft stated that this functionality would be present by the end of 2017. However, this never actually happened, and by March, Amazon Alexa has no mention of this functionality even coming.
This year at Microsoft Build 2018, a Microsoft representative, as well as one representing Amazon's Alexa developers, demonstrated how this will benefit their users. It showed that Cortana can work the best for productivity, while Alexa is better for reminders across devices, as well as controlling your smart home.
Back in August and at Build 2018, Microsoft stated that this is hopefully just the first of many different virtual personal assistants talking to each other and working to create a more powerful ecosystem. Since the times of the original announcement, both of the Washington based companies, Microsoft from Redmond and Amazon from Seattle, has partnered on other various tasks.
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