Cortana won't officially launch on Xbox One until 2016, Preview members get feature later this year

Cortana won’t officially launch on Xbox One until 2016, Preview members get feature later this year

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Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, has gone into detail about the four updates coming to the Xbox beta app for Windows 10.

He listed the following improvements coming to the program:

• Party text chat: Earlier this week, we introduced party text chat as another way to connect with your friends in the latest build of the New Xbox One Experience Preview. Starting today, party text chat is available for Xbox beta app members, joining voice chat as another way for gamers to communicate with friends.

• Read and reply to messages directly from notifications: No need to click through to read and reply to messages anymore. Now, you can quickly reply directly to the message inline.

• Activity alert notifications: You’ll get real-time notifications when someone else in the Xbox Live community adds you as a friend or likes, shares, or comments on your content. We designed these notifications to help you engage more deeply and easily with the community and made them easy to manage in Settings.

• Activity feed sharing: In the top right corner of your activity feed, you’ll now see a share icon. Click on the icon to display your recent shareable activity, such as achievements earned, game clips recorded and screenshots taken. From here, you can easily select the content you want to share.

Also, for members of the Xbox One Preview program who have yet to receive their invite for the New Xbox One Experience, you might just be in luck. This weekend, more Preview Program members will receive their invites. Too bad I never got my invite to the Preview Program at all. The engineering team over at Xbox are working hard to introduce Cortana into the Xbox One. The post said that the feature would be available to everyone in 2016.

With that said, preview members should get Cortana later this year. Be sure to join our newly announced Steam group and stay tuned to ICXM.net for more Xbox and Microsoft news!

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