It’s now possible to visit Microsoft’s virtual assistant app Cortana’s tombstone in the growing graveyard of failed products. The company has completely ended its support for Windows 10 and 11 for the application to make room for the continued transition to artificial intelligence of Bing and other digital products and services.
We’ve already known for a few months that this would happen. Microsoft issued an end of support notice for Cortana in Windows and Teams in June, stating that the app will be deprecated and that support will end in late 2023. While the app is still available on Microsoft Teams, Teams mobile, and Teams screens, support for these platforms will also end in the fall of this year.
You will be able to continue to use Cortana in the mobile version of Microsoft Outlook, at least in the coming period. Still, the app isn’t available on smart speakers and was already deprecated on iOS and Android about three years ago.
As first noticed by The Verge, Windows 10 and 11 users trying to install the Cortana app get a message saying “Cortana as a standalone app on Windows is deprecated”. The company is trying to use Microsoft 365 and Windows 11 Copilot artificial intelligence instead. People currently using Windows 10 don’t stand a chance except with Bing’s in-browser AI.
The company released Cortana in 2014 and it was integrated into Windows 10 in 2015. Later that year, Microsoft added its digital assistant to Xbox consoles. Cortana’s; It was intended to be Apple’s virtual assistant to compete with Siri, Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
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