Be honest, you typically forget that Cortana exists, don’t you? Microsoft’s digital assistant was not quite able to keep up with the likes of Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. Well, according to a new report from XDA Developers, it appears that Cortana is leaving the Windows operating system.
Microsoft’s Cortana was a useful tool to help you navigate your Microsoft products, but it just didn’t have the staying power that other assistants have. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen Cortana sink into obscurity. While that’s not great news, Microsoft is looking to move forward and implement the GPT-4-powered Copilot into its products.
Cortana is leaving the Windows operating system
Microsoft has been making a huge push into AI with ChatGPT being the engine. The company introduced Windows Copilot last week, and we were all led to expect that this would be the replacement for Cortana. Out with the old, and with the new.
However, Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman told XDA Developers that Copilot was not going to be a replacement for Cortana. He seems to have been pretty sturdy in his statement, which makes it all the funnier that a support document from the company states that Cortana on PC will lose support later on this year.
Microsoft didn’t give an exact date or much of a ballpark; it said in late 2023. Since we’re approaching the halfway mark of the year, it seems that Cortana only has a few more months on Windows.
The voice assistant isn’t quite baked into the operating system. Rather, it sits as its own Standalone app. It’s very out of the way, so most people might not have known about it.
If you are an avid Cortana user, then you may want to say your final goodbyes over the next couple of months. However, Cortana leaving Windows does not mean that it’s going away completely. Microsoft pointed out that Cortana will still be available on Outlook mobile, Teams display, Teams mobile, and Teams rooms. However, we’re not exactly sure how long it’s going to be supported on those platforms either.
2023-06-03 15:09:44