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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    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.

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    1 year 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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      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
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      1 year ago

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

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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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        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.