By Sarah Griffiths iPhone users love – or loathe – Siri, the ‘intelligent personal assistant’ that recognises voice commands. And so far Windows Phone owners have had to live without a similar feature to the one that Apple rolled out in October 2011. But a video that claims to show Microsoft’s forthcoming digital assistant has been leaked online. Scroll down for video The leaked video shows Microsoft's digital assistant, called Cortana, running on what seems to be a Windows Phone 8.1 handset (pictured) Windows Phone 8.1 is the upcoming third generation of Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system.
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Microsoft’s Siri-like digital assistant is poised to replace Bing Search in the Windows Phone 8.1 update
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Cortana is described as ‘a personal assistant on your phone, ready to help with reminders, suggestions, tasks and lots more’ in the video
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It is expected to make its official debut at the Build Developer Conference in San Francisco next month
Cortana seems to make use of location, voice input, text messages email information and contacts as well as browser and search history to learn about a user's habits, after they sign into their @placeholder account.