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The Death of Cortana

Microsoft announced in June 2023 that it would be killing Cortana, the company’s voice-activated virtual assistant. The standalone Cortana app for Windows will be discontinued in late 2023, and Cortana will no longer be available on Android or iOS devices. Cortana was first introduced in 2014 as a voice assistant for Windows Phone devices. It…

Windows 10, Part 3

Cortana?  Is it a name to be loved or feared? Cortana is the “Siri”-like and “OK, Google” personal voice search feature found now in Windows 10 for PC.  It was previously available the first part of 2015 for Windows 8.1 Phones.  If you read last week’s article on linked and/ local accounts this continues that…

Windows 10, Part 3

Here are a few more features for Windows 10 that we did not talk about last week.  First today is "Cortana." You may already be familiar with some of its ancestors, Siri, on the Apple platform and "OK, Google" on Android devices.  It was named after Cortana, for all of you non-gamers out there, an…