Microsoft's Home Hub aims to turn the PC into an Amazon Echo

It has been rumored for some time that Microsoft wants to join the smart home speaker space with a device called Home Hub.  A new report has a lot more details, and while it still sounds like a competitor to Amazon's smart speaker Echo and Google Home, it's different in one key detail: it's software, not hardware.  SEE ALSO: The LingLong DingDong is a Chinese-speaking Amazon Echo According to Windows Central , which quotes multiple unnamed sources, Home Hub is a software update for Win