Cortana’s smart-home powers grow with IFTTT, Honeywell, Ecobee support

The key weakness of the Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman/Kardon Invoke smart speaker was that it just wasn’t a great smart-home controller, lacking many of the services and IFTTT support of its rivals. Today, Microsoft said, that changes. Microsoft said Friday that it has added support for IFTTT, the conditional platform that triggers various connected services, to Cortana.