Microsoft lastly eliminated the Cortana standalone app from Home windows 11 within the newest preview construct for Insiders within the Canary Channel.
“The Cortana app is eliminated after updating to this construct. Now we have ended help for Cortana,” Home windows Insider group members Amanda Langowski and Brandon LeBlanc introduced at present.
Earlier than early August, when it was deprecated in one other Canary construct, the non-public assistant was deeply built-in into Microsoft’s ecosystem and was designed to work carefully with different Microsoft merchandise.
Redmond first introduced that it might finish help for the Home windows standalone Cortana app in a help doc printed in June.
“Help for Cortana in Groups cellular, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups Rooms will finish within the fall of 2023. Voice help in Outlook cellular and Microsoft 365 cellular may even finish within the fall of 2023,” Microsoft stated on the time.
“This variation solely impacts Cortana in Home windows, and your productiveness assistant, Cortana, will proceed to be obtainable in Outlook cellular, Groups cellular, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups rooms.”
As we speak, the time has come for Cortana to be lastly faraway from Home windows 11 after putting in the Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 25967.
Microsoft Copilot enters the stage
As we speak’s announcement comes after Redmond stated it dropped help for the Cortana cellular app two years in the past, beginning March 2021.
The corporate revealed throughout this yr’s Construct convention that Cortana’s spot can be taken by its new Home windows digital assistant, the AI-powered Microsoft Copilot.
This new AI-powered digital assistant began rolling out to all Home windows clients on September twenty sixth, with a variety of latest AI capabilities as a part of the most recent Home windows 11 22H2 replace.
“Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the net, your work information and what you might be doing within the second in your PC to offer higher help – together with your privateness and safety on the forefront,” Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi stated.
“With the function replace, Copilot in Home windows can be on by default, however below your management with Microsoft Intune coverage or Group Coverage,” Microsoft’s Harjit Dhaliwal added in a separate enterprise weblog submit.
Microsoft additionally means that Cortana customers can substitute with a few of its different not too long ago launched merchandise, together with the brand new AI-powered Bing search engine and Voice entry in Home windows 11 to manage PCs with their voices.
