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More than just another service, Cortana has been turned into a platform by Microsoft. The company tries to add new features to the digital voice assistant at least twice a month.
And thanks to the integration with Windows 10, we know of a few more features that are coming to Cortana in the very near future. Although it does not work per se in the technical preview build of the upcoming OS, Microsoft has still bundled Cortana assets into this test version of Windows 10.
It is thanks to these files we can get an idea of what’s next.
First up is a small (but handy) addition whereby Cortana will be able to track (http://twitter.com/rahulaggarwal/status/517635016495341568) your packages. The Parcel Delivery scenario is plain evident in this below configuration file.
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We are talking about the bingconfiguration_en-us resource file, by the way.
Another new addition is geo-fenced WiFi activation. This comes from the bootstraprules.xml file in Windows 10 Technical Preview, and allows it to determine (http://twitter.com/rahulaggarwal/status/517754152017870849) when to turn your WiFi on or off.
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The way this may work is when you are connected to your home network, Cortana will automatically turn on your wireless connection. If you go outside, the WiFi will be turned off, and if you visit your office, Cortana will know to turn it back on.
Valuable new feature, and although it saves some battery life on mobile devices, the real benefit is that Cortana (and by that token, Windows 10) becomes more robust this way.
source:windows10update