With the success of Google Home and Amazon Echo, using smart speakers as the control center of smart homes seems to have become an ideal way to successfully access smart devices. Google, Apple and Amazon have all established their own smart home platforms, while Microsoft seems to fall behind when the tide of smart homes strikes, Now the smart speakers equipped with Microsoft Cortana are finally late.

However, unlike the strategies of Google and Amazon, Microsoft seems to prefer to cooperate with third-party manufacturers. At the beginning of this month, the famous audio manufacturer Harmon Kardon Invoke, the first smart speaker that uses Cortana, has been officially released. Microsoft also released HP's first smart speaker product that uses Cortana voice assistant at the keynote speech of this year's Taipei Computer Expo. This product will focus on the smart home market, with the same positioning as Google Home and Amazon Echo. Microsoft will also compete directly with Google/Amazon in the smart home field, But is it too late for Microsoft to join the war at this time?

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