Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.::Microsoft has discontinued Cortana on Windows 11. The digital assistant no longer functions as a standalone app, years after Microsoft shut down its Cortana iOS and Android apps.

krayj 92 points 3 years ago

Wow, finally.

I am so tired of having to disable it every time I have to reinstall windows on a system.

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ThisIsNecessary 9 points 3 years ago

That was my extent of interaction with Cortana as well. I prefer the Halo version of her.

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atzanteol 53 points 3 years ago

And nothing of value was lost. Can't wait for the next turd they force on us.

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1bluepixel 6 points 3 years ago

It's already here. Or didn't you notice them pushing Bing AI?

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atzanteol 3 points 3 years ago

sigh I did not .. but I run Linux primarily.

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echoplex21 51 points 3 years ago

Microsoft just keeps killing off Cortanas don't they?

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Tehgingey 15 points 3 years ago

silent cartographer intensifies

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navi 4 points 3 years ago

I'll always remember you Echo 419.

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AngryMob 42 points 3 years ago

Its such a shame they wasted that name on such a dud. An actually useful AI helper named cortana is a no-brainer for them.

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bappity 5 points 3 years ago

an assistant based on a large language model like chatgpt called cortana would've been really cool

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daed 3 points 3 years ago

Jumped the AI generated gun there

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AteshgaRubyTeeth 3 points 3 years ago

Nah let’s call it Bing

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FartsWithAnAccent 34 points 3 years ago

Oh no.

Anyways...

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djmarcone 29 points 3 years ago

I use windows boxes all the time every day and have since windows 3.1 and I've never used cortana.

I don't know of anyone who has. Ever.

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freeman 11 points 3 years ago

I used it once. When it first came out. When imaging 125 machines at once.

Just turned the volume up and let all the Cortana’s just yammer away at the same time.

It was beautiful.

I then shut them all down and Reimaged them with an image that had it disabled by policy.

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arefx 6 points 3 years ago

I tried to use it once and it didn't work so I just forgot about it.

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Galexio 24 points 3 years ago

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Steveanonymous 10 points 3 years ago

Rampant post

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ElPussyKangaroo 18 points 3 years ago

I miss that era of Microsoft.

Cortana being insanely fun to use, Windows Phone existing, the future looking pretty cool.

Then Microsoft Microsoft-ed so hard they had to end it all

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Space_Racer 24 points 3 years ago

Is this missing a /s? I genuinely can't tell. All I can remember from that era was people shitting on them for windows 8.

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mindlight 13 points 3 years ago

Metro was genius on Windows Phone. Not so much on Windows 8.

What was even worse than Metro on Windows 8 was Metro on Windows 2008. OMFG.. the amount nervous breakdowns I've had when remoting a server in a window, trying to click the pixel in the bottom left corner to access the start menu.

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ElPussyKangaroo 6 points 3 years ago

No /s. Genuine love for Metro on Windows Phone.

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starman 2 points 3 years ago

There is still .NET which is best microsoft-made thing in existence IMO. And it's open source.

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Imgonnatrythis 17 points 3 years ago

Cmon, hopefully they are setting stage for the return of Clippy!

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ComfortablyGlum 16 points 3 years ago

I'm sure to eventually be replaced by even more invasive CoPilot. https://arstechnica.com/...

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AlexisFR 4 points 3 years ago

But this one is actually useful...

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huginn 3 points 3 years ago

ish.

When programming I find it is often wrong both logically and in attempting to infer what I'm writing, on top of being slow.

It's useful for generating documentation, but that's about it in my experience. Maybe it's just the Intellij plugin that makes it so slow.

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tonytins 7 points 3 years ago

All of this could have been avoided if they hadn't doubled down on Halo.

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Psyduck_world 7 points 3 years ago

Still waiting for them to shutdown OneDrive, tbh it’s a thousand times more annoying than Cortana.

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FragrantOwl 6 points 3 years ago

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veloxy 6 points 3 years ago

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d3Xt3r 2 points 3 years ago

Settings > Privacy & security > Search permissions and turn off Show Search highlights.

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veloxy 3 points 3 years ago

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Daydreamer 6 points 3 years ago

With copilot starting to roll out this seems reasonable

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