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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 81 points 10 months 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 44 points 10 months ago

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

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] echoplex21@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Microsoft just keeps killing off Cortanas don't they?

[-] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

silent cartographer intensifies

[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 3 points 10 months ago

I'll always remember you Echo 419.

[-] AngryMob@lemmy.one 36 points 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.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Oh no.

Anyways...

[-] djmarcone@lemmy.world 22 points 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.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 10 points 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.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Galexio@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago
[-] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Rampant post

[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 15 points 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@lemm.ee 21 points 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@lemm.ee 10 points 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@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] starman@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago
[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

But this one is actually useful...

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 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.

[-] Psyduck_world@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Daydreamer@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

With copilot starting to roll out this seems reasonable

[-] FragrantOwl@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Good riddance.

[-] veloxy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Luckily we got Bing chat in our start menu now! /s

Seriously though, does anyone know how to turn that off?

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