Microsoft Cortana's farewell tour comes to the Windows Insider program Microsoft has hammered yet another stake through the heart of its doomed assistant, Cortana, with a Windows Insider release that removes the service once and for all. Killing off Cortana has taken Microsoft a while since it signalled that the end was coming. Support for the assistant as a standalone application in Windows has …
"Copilot in Windows began turning up with the September 26 update...and, combined with Bing Chat and voice access in Windows, is expected to plug the Cortana-shaped hole in the lives of customers who actually used it.
All three worldwide users of Cortana must be just overjoyed with that.
I never used Cortana, and since I'm in IT, at my work place, when first setting up new Windows 10 PCs, our ultimate work competition, was to see how FAST we could shut her up during the Win10 OOBE setup, because Microsoft at first was so hell bent on making you listen to her SPEAK about how to setup the PC. What a terrible idea Microsoft had with that technology. I don't think I ever met anyone who actually USED it to be honest.
Ah yes, remember that too! Particularly when it defaulted to the US version which had a particularly whiny voice and talked utter shite (wasn't it something like 'a little bit of wifi here, a bit of sign-in there', or something like that?)
Think it might have been removed from the installers of later W10 releases (not installed W10 on a laptop for a while - on desktops I tend to disconnect the internal speaker anyway!).
