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Steve Ballmer, the ex-Microsoft CEO, apparently wanted to name what we know today as Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant as "Bingo" instead. This was revealed by a former Cortana Product Manger.
The name was the idea of former CEO Steve Ballmer
Virtual assistants have become part of our lives. There’s Siri, Google, Alexa, and Cortana. But there almost wasn’t Cortana, as Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer wanted to name the assistant Bingo.
Steve Ballmer wanted Microsoft’s Cortana AI to be called “Bingo” so it would be more Microsoft-branded, according to the Big Bets newsletter.That’s according to former Microsoft product manager... #alicenewtonrex #aiassistant #sandeepparuchuri #cortanaai #bigbetsnewsletter #steveballmer
A new interview with a former Microsoft project manager has revealed a fun detail about the Cortana assistant’s name: it was almost Bingo, a name come up with by former CEO Steve Ballmer.