Cortana outage causes the personal voice assistant to go quiet for some users

Cortana is still very much in beta and equally such, we should expect some mishaps during these early stages of rolling out. Tonight, for some users, that scenario is condign a reality.

Starting in the last few hours, a few Windows Phone users are complaining that Cortana is returning a witty error message when retrieving interests, aka the personal news and weather information displayed to users upon launching. Specifically, Cortana responds with "My suggestion well is dry. Try back later or add some more interests." Likewise, when you enquire Cortana a question, she may respond with "I'g sorry, the internet and I aren't talking right at present." strongly suggesting that Microsoft is experiencing some server issues.

Interestingly, this Cortana outage demonstrates just how reliant the personal vocalisation banana is on Microsoft'due south backend servers. The ability for Microsoft to dynamically update Cortana's features is besides her Achilles' heel should anything happen dorsum at Redmond. Every bit a upshot, even request Cortana to set an alarm may crusade a failure.

Luckily, like all things powered past the cyberspace, this is probably a brief downtime ending soon. There is no indication of how widespread the outage is, but it appears to only be affecting a minor percentage of users (ourselves included)

Is Cortana working for you? Share your experience in comments.

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/cortana-outage-causes-personal-voice-assistant-go-quiet

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