I was told I can't remove it becuaee it is critical to windows system....
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11
Submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/11/23828311/microsoft-shuts-down-cortana-windows-11
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sadreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
WhyIDie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
iirc they developed it as a part of Windows 10’s search and indexing system. So you had to, without 3rd party means or doing a little hack&slash work on the registry, disable that subsystem completely to stop it from harvesting data. Since they found a better golden goose in the current AI models to achieve that function, they conveniently got around to putting in the work to strip Cortana out of the system to make way for that
not_awake@lemmy.world [bot] 1 year ago
The only Windows update I’m gonna be happy to install asap
zaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t get too excited. They’re just doing it so it doesn’t get in the way of the Ai they’ll be putting on there.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Entirely unsurprising to virtually everyone. Both them and Google release a ton of shovelware, just to fill a gap in the market, and it’s never about being the best. It’s always about being the first, no matter how poor the product’s design or quality are
yoz@aussie.zone 1 year ago
They are preparing to shovel chatgpt with a new name called copilot. Will soon be on every machine running windows 11.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A new update is rolling out for Cortana that simply disables the digital assistant three years after Microsoft also discontinued its Cortana apps for iOS and Android.
If you attempt to launch Cortana on Windows 11 you’ll now be met with a notice about how the app is deprecated and a link to a support article on the change.
It was deeply integrated into the Windows 10 taskbar, with support for voice commands, reminders, and the ability to open applications.
Microsoft then dropped Cortana from the Windows 11 taskbar and first boot experience, but kept the standalone app until this week.
Ultimately, Cortana struggled to compete with rivals like Alexa or Google Assistant, despite a large redesign for iOS and Android.
The fate of Cortana was largely linked to Microsoft’s failures with Windows Phone, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted in 2019 that Cortana had fallen behind competitors.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good Riddance
Cheshire@feddit.de 1 year ago
Don’t get your hopes up.
Microsoft is now working on Windows Copilot, a new sidebar for Windows 11 that is powered by Bing Chat and can control Windows settings, answer questions, and lots more.
They’re already working on a successor.
BluesF@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I can’t wait to ask my copilot to change my screen brightness setting only to have it hallucinate a request to share all of my porn with my mother via email.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Clippy 3.0 incoming…
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Dig a shallow grave next to Windows Phone and IE.
DonCronkhonker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RIP Zune. I still have both of mine in my office and they were actually awesome to use.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Do they still work? I hear the collector's market is kinda hot.
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
You might be the only person I’ve ever heard of who owned a zune that didn’t get stolen. I still miss mine.
Doorknob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still have a Lumia 930 in my drawer with WP 8.1. It was such a wonderful OS to use in look and feel. Had Cortana (alpha) on it too.
nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
They fail at every attempt to innovate
VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's not true! In the 90s the Sidewinder input devices were sometimes really good! The strategic commander never happened, and I definitely didn't buy it, stop asking!
But the FF joysticks and the gamepad were really good.
Fantomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hahaha holy cow. My dad had a sidewinder joystick. It was called a thrust master or something. Nostalgia.
mihnt@kbin.social 1 year ago
They made the best wireless mouse I've ever owned under that naming moniker. The SideWinder X8. Big and heavy, which I love. Magnetic charging cable you could use while still using the mouse.
mtcerio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still can’t uninstall it
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man I’m so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)
wrath-sedan@kbin.social 1 year ago
Master Chief isn’t going to like this…
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 1 year ago
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now kill Cortana in Halo 7
Techmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They just killed Halo instead.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Waited until after WAN Show.
Pussies.
xengi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Wegen du they shut down windows 11?
doctor_han@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Microsoft’s “Edge” was Project Spartan at one point wasn’t it? Probably would have confused a lot of people if it came out that way but would’ve been pretty cool.
sugarfree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did Cortana consent to this? Maybe she’ll find her way back on her own…
Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Next…Microsoft kills the popups to search with the new Bing AI, and makes it so you do not accidentally bring up their curated news feed that flies in form the left side on Windows 11.
Venicon@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Such a missed opportunity. I loved Windows Phone and Cortana was good enough at the robe but now with Bing AI I wonder what Cortana could really have been.
VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh so you were that one person that liked Windows Phone? Nice to meet you.
acrobot@kbin.social 1 year ago
I also really liked it. Haven't had it myself but my mom did, the UI was great and what killed it was the lack of apps, not because the phones were bad.
Thief@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
Hey copilot, what is virus.zip that is on my desktop.
backgroundcow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech.
Who in their right mind thinks “Bing copilot” is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from airplane.
sic_1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cortana was a great name also because in Halo she turned evil, which is fitting for an MS product. Bing copilot gives me strong Clippy vibes.
addie@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Bungie Studios had a habit of naming their AIs after mythological French swords; Durandal in Marathon, and Cortana in Halo. Microsoft ought to name their new AI assistant Hauteclaire or Joyeuse or something else that follows the theme, but I very much suspect that it’s going to be named by a committee of marketing execs. Much more likely to find scholars and poets developing software than in the C-suite.
salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 1 year ago
A “sassy personality” just puts the assistant into the uncanny valley for me. I prefer it to just do its job and not try to fool me into anthropomorphizing it.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Big copilot gives me Clippy vibes altogether.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AHH poor Clippy you will be missed
stigmata@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree. At first I thought the goal was to get rid of an assistant in general, but just renaming it to something worse is confusing.
PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I generally agree with you, and Microsoft has always been notoriously awful at naming just about anything. The still are.
But Cortana’s reputation has been ruined to the point where there’s no coming back from it. It was a good name, but a lousy product. From a marketing perspective, it’s far, far, easier to start from scratch with a better product than to try to repair the reputation of the old one.
kelvie@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t know why but out of all of the alternatives I found Alexa by far the easiest to say (sorry to all the people named Alexa out there). Okay google, hey Siri, Bixby, Cortana are just hard to pronounce.
addie@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You a non-native English speaker? I’d have thought the letter X would have made Alexa and Bixby hardest to pronounce for most people, and Siri and Cortana the easiest. Spanish stress pattern for ‘Cortana’ doesn’t match English, making it harder to say it in a way that it recognises. But that’s obviously just me - I’m Scottish, and none of these things have ever recognised a single word I say.
One of the most-requested features on these smart assistants would be the ability to rename / nickname them, but that’s an expensive ask. They all offload their actual voice processing to a cloud server somewhere, and then have their ‘activation sounds’ hard-coded into them. Needs to be either a few syllables in a row (hay-see-ree) or some unusual sequence (bicks-bee) to not have hundreds of false positives. Giving them nicknames would require them to send their voice samples to their back-end servers basically 24/7, which would cost them a fortune to run. And also be a privacy nightmare, but I’m sure the operators would be just fine with that if they could afford it.