New chapter in saying goodbye to Cortana, the virtual assistant launched by Microsoft almost a decade ago. Redmond has decided before 2024 They will stop supporting it in Windows 10 and 11. The announcement comes shortly after the company introduced Windows Copilot for Windows 11, a tool capable of providing personalized feedback and help to users with the operating system and whose operation is based on Bing Chat. .
“We are making some changes to Windows that will affect users of the Cortana app. We will no longer support Cortana as a stand-alone application in Windows until the end of 20213,” Microsoft continues on its official support website. This change only affects Cortana on Windows, and its productivity assistant, Cortana, is available on Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile, Microsoft Teams Display, and Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Proof of change in stakes as Redmond residents reap benefits of announcement raise as option Its tools with artificial intelligence, among which it cites Bing Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot or Windows Copilot. The company slides on this latest resource, “Available in preview for Windows 11 in June, it offers centralized AI assistance.”
The folks at Redmond promoted Windows Copilot for Windows 11 during the Microsoft Build 2023 conference a few days back, where it was presented as a virtual assistant designed to provide personalized feedback and facilitate operating system management. Can be docked in the side panel.
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Cortana in Windows is really pnothing surprising, Not only because of the announcement of Windows Copilot and its use of artificial intelligence, but also because of the drift of the virtual assistant, first introduced during a conference for developers nine years ago, and which is losing prominence.
With Windows 11 Cortana lost the prominent place it had until then on the taskbar, disappeared from the startup experience, and in 2021 Microsoft will also cut support for the Cortana app on iOS and Android.
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