Since Microsoft announced Cortana along with Windows Phone 8.1 at Build 2014, “Will Cortana come to more platforms” seems to be one of the top questions. Cortana herself has said she’s a fan of PCs – a hint that Cortana could go beyond Windows Phone, but Microsoft has no promise.

A job posted on Microsoft Careers teases Cortana team is hiring a developer for Cortana experience on Windows. The Cortana Software Development Engineer job description writes,

Do you want to be part of the team that is building the next generation of Cortana? We are looking for strong and motivated developers to help shape the Evolution of the next generation of Microsoft’s Digital Assistant – Cortana! The landscape of digital assistant is challenging, exciting, and ground-breaking space. Being part of the Cortana team you will have the opportunity to push the frontier, redefine the personalization experience on Windows. You can help create serendipitous moments of discovery and satisfaction for the users and enable signature experiences that make Windows your indispensable companion in the real world. We also own the search experience, which is one of the premier and most used experiences in Windows.

The job info also mentions “NUI” (Natural User Interface). This reminds me of a blog post from Microsoft Research. As Cortana heavily relies on Bing platform and MS Research projects, we will definitely see more possibilities.

“Microsoft has intentionally built Cortana to scale out to all the different domains,” Heck says. “Having a long-term vision means we have a long-term architecture. The goal is to support all types of human interaction—whether it’s speech, text, or gestures—across domains of information and function and make it as easy as a natural conversation.”

Cortana team is also looking for a Senior PM to own the design and implementation plans of search and task completion service integration. (via LiveSino)