Cortana: The best Easter Eggs in the language assistant

Numerous Easter Eggs are hidden in Microsoft's voice assistant Cortana. You can achieve this with a Windows Phone as well as with Windows 10. We present the highlights in more detail here.

The best Easter eggs in Microsoft's voice assistant Cortana

Since Cortana is still in development, many voice commands are not yet available in the German version. If you want to try the following commands, you should change Cortana to "English US" and ask the questions in English.

1. Do you remember Clippy, the annoying paper clip from old office days? Apparently Cortana and Clippy are good friends because when you ask Microsoft's voice assistants about Clippy, he reveals that Clippy enjoys spending time outside the media and spending time with Canasta.
2. When asked if Cortana likes Clippy, the assistant replies that you can only like Clippy. After all, he had to take a lot and could still smile. She also learned from Clippy how important it was to listen. If you look at it that way, Clippy is actually the mental predecessor of Cortana.
3. If you ask Cortana the same questions again, the voice assistant will even turn into a modern image of Clippy.
4. Otherwise Cortana is always good for a joke. For example, you can ask the voice assistant for a joke and Cortana will tell you more or less funny jokes.
5. When asked if Cortana knows Siri, the voice assistant replies that she is constantly trying to reach Siri, but that she unfortunately only has an iPhone 3G. The reason: Siri only works with an iPhone 4s or higher.
6. This is exactly how you can ask Cortana if she knows Google Now. She replies that you know Google Now, that it’s not very talkative, it’s helpful.
7. Ask Cortana about Bill Gates. Cortana is aware of the work of the Microsoft founder and replies that you cannot imagine a world without him.
8. A Star Trek reference is also hidden in the voice assistant. To the iconic saying "Beam me up!" Cortana replies "Aye, aye captain!".
9. Since Cortana originally comes from the Xbox game series "Halo", a matching Easter Egg should not be missing. If you ask Cortana if she loves the Master Chief, Cortana will be bold and reply that it is complicated and also private.

There are also a number of Easter Eggs hidden in Apple's voice assistants. We present the ten best Easter Eggs in Siri.