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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.

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[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 year ago

Wow, finally.

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft just keeps killing off Cortanas don't they?

[–] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

silent cartographer intensifies

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'll always remember you Echo 419.

[–] AngryMob@lemmy.one 37 points 1 year 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.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Oh no.

Anyways...

[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But this one is actually useful...

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] djmarcone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.pub 10 points 1 year 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.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.ee 11 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] starman@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Psyduck_world@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Daydreamer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

With copilot starting to roll out this seems reasonable