The alexa app on the microsoft store isnt there what do I do?

Anonymous
2023-04-19T06:58:23+00:00

I looked it up on the search bar in the store and its not there. I just want to be able to connect my pc to my alexa.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-13T02:35:12+00:00

    Cool, thanks for the info. So they are pretty much pushing Amazon out. If my hardware hasn't changed, and I was able to use it previously, then they've just restricted/removed the app.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-24T13:51:20+00:00

    Alexa - Microsoft Store Apps

    Come to this area and click the link I sent that john dev had

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-13T05:35:45+00:00

    john devs link:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/alexa/9n12z3c... 

    its works but you can't search it because they want to use cortana but also they now replace cortana with microsofts bing chat

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-01T03:45:46+00:00

    Actually I was partially incorrect.

    Microsoft and Amazon signed a deal in 2017 integrating Alexa with Cortana. In order for Alexa to work in PC's, the PC would use Cortana --- then Cortana talks to Alexa, then Alexa talks back to you.

    Microsoft and Amazon terminated the deal in 2021.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-axed-cortana-alexa-integration-and-no-one-noticed

    Since Amazon never made a standalone version of Alexa on PC, even if you install the Alexa app, it would not work. That's why they pulled the app from the Microsoft Store because that version requires Cortana to talk to Alexa.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-31T03:24:07+00:00

    Except it was Amazon that pulled the app from the Microsoft Store. So why would Amazon then hosts it back onto its own store which cost them their own bandwidth? It's a free app so Microsoft ain't getting a cut, so the smart thing would have leave it on the Microsoft Store and let Microsoft paid for the bandwidth.

    Amazon just laid off 2000 people on their hardware division (which includes alexa).

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742109/amazon-alexa-celebrity-voices-discontinued

    Alexa doesn't make money. Cortana doesn't make money.

    That's why they are gone. It is as simple as that.

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