Microsoft stops pre-installed Windows app of voice assistant Cortana – IT Pro – News


Microsoft will finish assist for the Cortana digital assistant Home windows app on the finish of 2023. This app has been round since 2014 and was put in by default on Home windows 10 and 11 programs.

Cortana continues to be accessible as a part of Microsoft Groups and the Outlook app for now, writes Microsoft. For Home windows, the corporate desires to concentrate on its AI functions, corresponding to introduced final month CoPilot, which Microsoft says can be utilized for a similar duties as Cortana. This must also make it potential, amongst different issues, to create calendar occasions and compile e-mails utilizing voice instructions. As well as, Microsoft additionally mentions Voice Entry as a Cortana various, a Home windows 11 characteristic that lets customers open apps and surf the web with their voice.

The voice assistant is just not supported within the Netherlands and Belgium, however the Cortana app continues to be pre-installed on each Home windows 10 and 11 machine. Nonetheless, when customers attempt to open the app, a message pops up stating that Cortana is “not accessible on your area.”

In 2020 Microsoft already stopped with the assist for all third-party gadgets and software program that Cortana runs on. From the iOS and Android apps and the model on Floor Headphones turned a yr later additionally pulled the plug.