So it's been out for about 8 years on PC? I haven't used it once, it's among the things I deactivate on a new install with external tools. These voice assistants are a privacy nightmare and I would never place one in my home, let alone control my PC with it on a daily basis.
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For me, Cortana wasn't even available in my country. It still isn't. And Microsoft slowly pulling its plug smells like the plain old "implementation issue" that Microsoft historically has with vanguard products
Isn’t it weird that these companies all thought that we would speak and listen to a cortana/siri/alexa/google in the future while sitting in front of a PC. I mean those are multibillion dollar companies and they all create products that normally go through tough focus-group testings, customer analytics rounds and beta groups. They all apparently thought that this would in fact be the new Oil and the way people want to interact with a PC/Device. I dont get how they could have been so wrong. They must have knew that the focus groups do not respond well. There is absolutely no way the feedback of the cortana test group was like „they all loved it! They all want to open windows explorer via cortana and browse the web asking her stuff“. Fucking billion dollar company including it into the task bar. And now removing it again. I can’t get over it how wrong they were about what their customers want. If they failed that hard on this turf, what else did they try to push without zero vetting? What was the grand schene here? Sucking up voice data? Voice profiles? Training a database? Fear of missing out?
So weird seeing big companies all believing together in such a myth and only finding out after. And now they tell us AI is the next big thing that will change everything… I bet Windows 12 will have an AI feature that will be removed in Windows 15.
My guess is, they killing cortana because of their copilot software, which is basically the same - but better. They would heave to maintain basically the same product, so they dumped it.
As i see it, using a computer, smartphone or any other device with your voice has a lot of benefits and is used a lot around the world. But it is used in a different scenario than a mouse/keyboard is used and i'm pretty sure they are aware of it. Even they don't see people sitting at their desk talking to their computer all day long.
I agree, they will probably kill off copilot in the next few OS and replace it with something different. They want to be competitive with software from other vendors, so they jump to the "next new thing".
Copilot is bundled with teams, is my guess right?
Copilot is as far as i know basically bundled with the os, so with everything.
I guess at the time it at least made Microsoft seem up to date on the last trends for investors?
Simple OS with simple UI and no garbage software like cortana, Linux is the way
Finally at least one good reason to switch to windows 11!
Absence of one bad among many is a good bad now?