Confirming March reports that Microsoft would make a Cortana app for iOS and Android, Microsoft announced today that a Cortana app will ship for Android in late June and for iOS later in the year.
Windows 10 will come with an app called the Phone Companion that's designed to help Windows 10 work better with smartphones. Plug an iOS or Android handset into a Windows 10 machine and the Phone Companion will help install Microsoft's range of phone apps onto the device. Office, OneNote, OneDrive, Skype, and Outlook are all out now and will soon be joined by Cortana and Music. This app should be available in a new Insider Preview of Windows 10 that will ship in the next few weeks.
The purpose is to ensure that Microsoft's set of synchronized services are always available; if you have a picture or song or document on your PC, it should be available and usable on your phone, too, and vice versa. As part of this, certain features that are currently Windows-only—such as Music's support for playing music from OneDrive—will be added to the iOS and Android apps.
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