Microsoft Boosts Cortana Performance by 20%

Microsoft is rolling out a major new performance-enhancing update for Cortana on the iPhone this week. The new update apparently boosts the startup times of Cortana by a whopping 20%, according to Microsoft. That could be 2 seconds faster, or a few milliseconds faster — Microsoft isn’t sharing the specifics.

Along with the massive increase in the startup time, the latest Cortana update features the usual bug fixes and minor performance improvements. On my iPhone X, the new Cortana update certainly feels faster when starting up, and the overall performance of the app also seems a tad bit faster.

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You can get the new Cortana update from the App Store here.

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  • glenn8878

    22 January, 2018 - 10:00 pm

    <p>I feel better now (not that I care)</p>

  • red.radar

    Premium Member
    22 January, 2018 - 10:25 pm

    <p>Excellent, now people will realize faster that Cortana isn't the digital assistant they were looking for. </p><p><br></p>

    • jrswarr

      Premium Member
      23 January, 2018 - 8:50 am

      <blockquote><a href="#239669"><em>In reply to red.radar:</em></a></blockquote><p>And Siri is?</p>

      • red.radar

        Premium Member
        23 January, 2018 - 9:18 am

        <blockquote><a href="#239708"><em>In reply to jrswarr:</em></a></blockquote><p>Who said anything about Siri? We all know this is a two horse race between Alexa and Google Assistant. </p>

  • Bats

    22 January, 2018 - 10:48 pm

    <p>Lol… Boost performance by 20%? That's basically a "whopping" no difference. Seriously… So what?</p><p><br></p>

  • Tony Barrett

    23 January, 2018 - 7:52 am

    <p>Does anyone actually use Cortana outside of Windows 10 Desktop? I just can't see those iPhone luvvies lining up to install this. With Win Mobile in permanent freefall, Cortana was basically DoA.</p>

    • Bob Mahle

      23 January, 2018 - 8:29 am

      <blockquote><a href="#239702"><em>In reply to ghostrider:</em></a></blockquote><p>I use it on my Droid phone. It's nice to integrate with Windows and get my text messages on my laptop. It's not perfect but useful.</p>

  • chrisrut

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    23 January, 2018 - 10:17 am

    <p>Uhhhhh… Ya might want an editor to take a look at the first sentence of the second paragraph… :-)</p>

  • Winner

    23 January, 2018 - 11:40 am

    <p>Sort of like "Microsoft boosts Windows Phone performance by 20%".</p>

  • PeteB

    23 January, 2018 - 11:43 am

    <p>Maybe they should've expanded its coverage by 20%, since it still doesn't really work outside the US.</p><p><br></p><p>Oh well hopefully now I can uninstall it 20% faster – One of the first things I do on a new 10 PC along with gettin rid of edge and all the other app bloat.</p>

  • Daniel D

    23 January, 2018 - 2:44 pm

    <p>Awesome. The software no one asked for is now 20 percent faster at doing a job, no one cares about. </p>

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