Bill Gates' 'Personal Agent' project for Microsoft might be called Office Now

Microsoft is currently developing a personal assistant app for Windows, iOS and Android chosen Role Now. The features of this app sound very like to something that Microsoft co-founder Beak Gates recently mentioned he was working on with the company, which he chosen "Personal Agent".

Gates mentioned this every bit part of his Reddit AMA session earlier this year:

"I project I am working on with Microsoft is the Personal Agent which will call up everything and help you go back and find things and help you pick what things to pay attention to. The idea that you take to find applications and pick them and they each are trying to tell you what is new is just not the efficient model - the agent will assist solve this. It volition piece of work beyond all your devices."

Based on the screenshots and clarification posted by Neowin on Office Now, it sounds very similar to Gates' "Personal Agent".

"The app makes information technology easy to schedule meetings, quickly find emails that are directed specifically at you, get directions to a meeting, join a conference phone call and similar tasks. Past opening the app, you lot get an 'executive summary' of your day which includes a loftier level await at your meetings for the mean solar day: if the meetings are dorsum to dorsum, if they are they require you to travel to them and how long information technology will take to get at that place likewise."

Office now

The app volition likewise reportedly give users an alert if a meeting's fourth dimension or date has been changed or cancelled. As with all of the unreleased Microsoft apps that have been revealed this week, at that place's no discussion on when, or fifty-fifty if, Office Now might be released.

Source: Neowin