{"id":1168341,"date":"2023-08-04T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1168341"},"modified":"2023-08-04T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:19:06","slug":"cortana-once-a-flagship-feature-of-windows-phones-is-slowly-being-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1168341","title":{"rendered":"Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Cortana is gradually fading from Windows and other Microsoft products. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Microsoft is working to cram its new ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat service into every product it makes, and starting this fall it will be a built-in feature of Windows 11<\/a>. It makes sense, then, that Microsoft is also working to shut down its last stab at an automated virtual assistant\u2014the standalone Cortana app<\/a> in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is going to stop working this month, and Microsoft is pointing users toward Bing Chat and Windows Copilot instead.<\/p>\n

Some users have reported that the Cortana app has already stopped working entirely following an app update. On a PC running a fully up-to-date version of Windows 11 22H2, my Cortana app still functions, but it told me that “Cortana in Windows is going away soon.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft has been pulling back on its support for Cortana for years, ending support<\/a> for the iOS and Android versions in early 2021 and removing it from the Windows taskbar in Windows 11 a few months later. Before that, Microsoft had already removed most third-party app integrations<\/a>, refocusing the assistant entirely on basic productivity tasks and Bing searches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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