Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.::Microsoft has discontinued Cortana on Windows 11. The digital assistant no longer functions as a standalone app, years after Microsoft shut down its Cortana iOS and Android apps.

15 points

I miss that era of Microsoft.

Cortana being insanely fun to use, Windows Phone existing, the future looking pretty cool.

Then Microsoft Microsoft-ed so hard they had to end it all

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Is this missing a /s? I genuinely can’t tell. All I can remember from that era was people shitting on them for windows 8.

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No /s. Genuine love for Metro on Windows Phone.

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Metro was genius on Windows Phone. Not so much on Windows 8.

What was even worse than Metro on Windows 8 was Metro on Windows 2008. OMFG… the amount nervous breakdowns I’ve had when remoting a server in a window, trying to click the pixel in the bottom left corner to access the start menu.

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2 points

There is still .NET which is best microsoft-made thing in existence IMO. And it’s open source.

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And nothing of value was lost. Can’t wait for the next turd they force on us.

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6 points

It’s already here. Or didn’t you notice them pushing Bing AI?

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4 points

sigh I did not … but I run Linux primarily.

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I remember trying that out on my PC for the novelty of it when it first came out and it was pretty useless lol. I have manually disabled /un-installed it on every system I’ve ever had since then.

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81 points

Wow, finally.

I am so tired of having to disable it every time I have to reinstall windows on a system.

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