Me: "Alexa, ask Siri to open Outlook through Cortana." Alexa: "Sorry, I don't know that."

Yeah okay, that would be a long shot, but it is undeniable we are in a period of breakneck and breakthrough digital transformation, driven by a massive marketplace shift in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning from the usual suspects of Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Data conspiracy theories aside, the AI devices from these giants do offer the real promise of "what's next" in voice...