![]() I’ll explain it all, but first let’s take a look at Cortana’s checkered history and why Microsoft has decided it’s time to drastically curtail what it can do.Ĭortana was first introduced in 2014 for Windows Phone, which met its own demise in 2017. Cortana will live on for now, in a much more limited way. But it may be at the beginning of one of those long deathbed watches that Microsoft is prone to make failed products endure. It won’t be built into smart speakers - not that it ever got incorporated into many.Ĭortana isn’t being killed off outright. It won’t compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant - not that it ever really did. The digital assistant will no longer be easily accessible in Windows 10, and it will lose the ability to do many of the things it was designed to do, such as control smart devices in your home or play music. Microsoft is sugar-coating the news, but in the next upgrade to Windows, due this spring, Cortana as we know it will all but cease to exist. ![]()
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