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“Invoke” to challenge Amazon Echo, Google Home?

Posted on May 8, 2017 at 09:11 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve had a chance to play with Cortana on the new Harmon Kardon speaker.

But “Invoke”? Gawd. Is that the best Microsoft marketing could come up with?

I just asked my Google phone “What is invoke?” and the answer is… “the antiquated defense of insanity is rarely invoked today…”

Microsoft News Invoke

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