Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana on iOS and Android (theverge.com) 40
Microsoft has shut down its Cortana app for iOS and Android. From a report: It's the latest in a series of moves to end support for Cortana across multiple devices, including Microsoft's own Surface Headphones. The Cortana app for iOS and Android is no longer supported, and Microsoft has removed it from both the App Store and Google's Play Store.
So I need now to run and get a Windows Phone? (Score:3)
Oh, wait...
When will that upgrade come to PC? (Score:5, Insightful)
That.
When will that upgrade come to the world? (Score:2)
Rename April 1st to "Covid-19 day" because everything is going to be shut down before it's over.
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Just install the LTSB version of Windows. No Cortana and no app store. The install bugs you once about making an account and that is it.
Re:When will that upgrade come to PC? (Score:5, Informative)
It's called LTSC now, and getting a license for it is basically impossible for consumers.
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Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.549981C3F5F10* -AllUsers| Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
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Tried that. The damn thing is still there.
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Where are the ponies? (Score:5, Funny)
Cortana, where are the ponies? I came to slashdot looking for ponies and can't find them anywhere.
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Re:Where are the ponies? (Score:5, Funny)
Cowboy Neil stole the ponies!
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Cowboy Neil stole the ponies!
Nah, he just sold them, half-knowing it was to a place they'd be butchered and sold as ground meat.
Re:Where are the ponies? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, Natalie Portman probably had them with her grits in Soviet Russia (where the ponies OWN you). Or something like that. (Ok, probably dead ponies probably wouldn't own you even in Soviet Russia).
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The slashdot that we remember fondly is long gone, unfortunately.
Nah, bit of it like the total inability to handle anything beyond 7-bit ASCII are all still where we remember them.
Look at the ponies Cortana. (Score:1)
Cortana has some rawkin bumb mappings, for sure.
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https://danbooru.donmai.us/pos... [donmai.us]
All 2 users will have to remove it? (Score:2)
Or does it continue to work if you already have it installed?
Good (Score:2)
Anyone remember Tellme? (Score:4, Interesting)
Back before I had a smartphone, I would dial 800-555-TELL to get phone numbers of stores while out and about and then it would connect the call for free. It had a lousy voice assistant. Microsoft bought that and turned it into Cortana. It still doesn't work well.
I only found out about Tellme after Google discontinued GOOG-411 which was the same sort of service. Apparently running a free phone service was the best way to train a voice model at the time. Google succeeded in finishing a great voice model so they discontinued it way earlier.
Human input is how Google gets ahead. Between free directory services and clicking on crosswalks, we're doing the hard work for them.
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If this is bothersome, consider using Duck Duck Go [duckduckgo.com] as your homepage and search engine instead of Google. It protects your privacy and works great!
Also, ditch your Android phone and go with a Linux Pine Phone [pine64.org], or if you are feeling a bit spendy you can try the Librem 5 [puri.sm] (which they are pushing as a personal computer in your pocket that doubles as a phone, and yes it also runs Linux and protects your privacy).
The difference between Google and Microsoft... (Score:1)
Is that Google cancels services that people have actually used!
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Google has to cancel services that are 'the least popular" because they don't have any services that NOBODY uses.
Zune
Windows Phone
Cortana
MS is good at making products that nobody wants. No, I take that back... most companies design products nobody wants. But then they test them and realize it's going to flop, and cancel it before dumping marketing money into it.
MS on the other hand seems to take the attitude "We're MS, we're BIG, everyone will love it even if it stinks because it's MS!" And surprise, n
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I thought Cortana would be as big as Zune someday (Score:5, Funny)
The problem with the cloud. (Score:3)
If a product goes off support, we should still be able to use it. Just don't expect any help from the vendor.
Cloud services are run by the vendor, so after it goes off support, it is just dead and we can no longer use it.
When the push to the Cloud Infrastructure, I doubt many companies stopped and realized that they should be supporting a product for much longer than they normally do.
So you might get a good first push of sales, because the cloud makes a cheaper product.
However after you discontinue a product, you will cut off access to a good number of people. Many of which will not go back to you for the next version of the product. Where if you say had software on the Device, they can still run it for a long time, where when it is time to move off, they may see your product as the safe choice for the upgrade.
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If a product goes off support, we should still be able to use it.
I didn't realize people used it.
Honestly, it's one of the first things disabled as a distraction on a new install. I don't know why people would install it intentionally, but I guess they have a target market somewhere.
Re:The problem with the cloud. (Score:4, Insightful)
And nothing of value was lost. (Score:2)
Seriously now, who was going out of their way to use this on iOS or Android?
Who even uses it on Windows?
Mickey$oft is an April Fools Joke (Score:2)
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Bob? What about Bob? [imdb.com]
Clippy 2021 (Score:2)
I hope they will replace it with something more useful, like a voice-activated version of Clippy!
Feature Request (Score:3)
Please remove Cortana from Windows!
I am confused, are they killing Cortana? (Score:2)
I thought Microsoft was pushing into cloud services: Office 365, Outlook, Cortana, etc. Windows now wants you to make a Microsoft account and Cortana is on by default if you do. I thought Cortana was a big part of that for MS Cloud users. While I don't use it, I can see the appeal: If you use Office 365 for documents, email, calendar, etc then Cortana can query those items. Is Cortana being killed-off? I thought that they would support the Office 365 suite an all platforms as an insurance that if the W
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I'm gonna reply to my own post now that I RTFA. Apparently they are killing Cortana. Seems foolish to me - if I was an Office 365 user who didn't care about privacy, I would use it. Seems like the hard part is already done - they have the voice training already in there. They have all the pieces. *shrugs* I suppose people just use the voice assistant that comes with their phones and they don't care about any others.
IIUC, MS is shutting down Clippy v.2 (Score:2)
Should I cheer? A description of Cortana makes it sound like version 2 of Clippy. Or should I be unhappy...as this may cause fewer people to hate Microsoft?
Cortana "plays for sure" (Score:2)
In case you were wondering (Score:2)
Cortana was the original joke. So killing it on April1 makes in an April Fools Joke ?