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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    92·
    2 years ago

    Wow, finally.

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

    • ThisIsNecessaryEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

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

  • echoplex21English
    521·
    2 years ago

    Microsoft just keeps killing off Cortanas don’t they?

  • AngryMob@lemmy.oneEnglish
    42·
    2 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.

    • BappityEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

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

  • djmarconeEnglish
    29·
    2 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.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
      11·
      2 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.

    • arefx@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

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

  • ElPussyKangarooEnglish
    213·
    2 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

    • Space_Racer@lemm.eeEnglish
      262·
      2 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.

      • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        2 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.

  • ImgonnatrythisEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

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

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        3·
        2 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.

  • Psyduck_worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

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

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      2·
      2 years ago

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