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.

Psyduck_world , 10 months ago

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

tonytins , 10 months ago

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

FartsWithAnAccent , 10 months ago

Oh no.

Anyways…

ElPussyKangaroo , 10 months 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

Space_Racer , 10 months 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.

mindlight , 10 months 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.

ElPussyKangaroo , 10 months ago

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

starman , 10 months ago

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

AngryMob , 10 months 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.

Imgonnatrythis , 10 months ago

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

atzanteol , 10 months ago

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

1bluepixel , 10 months ago

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

atzanteol , 10 months ago

sigh I did not … but I run Linux primarily.

krayj , 10 months ago

Wow, finally.

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

ComfortablyGlum , 10 months ago

I’m sure to eventually be replaced by even more invasive CoPilot. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/…/amp/

AlexisFR , 10 months ago

But this one is actually useful…

huginn , 10 months 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.

Daydreamer , 10 months ago

With copilot starting to roll out this seems reasonable

FragrantOwl , 10 months ago

Good riddance.

Galexio , 10 months ago

Has it been 7 years?

Steveanonymous , 10 months ago

Rampant post

djmarcone , 10 months 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.

arefx , 10 months ago

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

freeman , 10 months 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.

echoplex21 , 10 months ago

Microsoft just keeps killing off Cortanas don’t they?

Tehgingey , 10 months ago

silent cartographer intensifies

navi , 10 months ago

I’ll always remember you Echo 419.