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 assist for Cortana,” Home windows Insider workforce members Amanda Langowski and Brandon LeBlanc introduced right this moment.
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 intently with different Microsoft merchandise.
Redmond first introduced that it will finish assist for the Home windows standalone Cortana app in a assist doc revealed in June.
“Assist for Cortana in Groups cell, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups Rooms will finish within the fall of 2023. Voice help in Outlook cell and Microsoft 365 cell can even finish within the fall of 2023,” Microsoft mentioned on the time.
“This alteration solely impacts Cortana in Home windows, and your productiveness assistant, Cortana, will proceed to be accessible in Outlook cell, Groups cell, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups rooms.”
Immediately, 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
Immediately’s announcement comes after Redmond mentioned it dropped assist for the Cortana cell app two years in the past, beginning March 2021.
The corporate revealed throughout this yr’s Construct convention that Cortana’s spot could 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 prospects on September twenty sixth, with a variety of recent AI capabilities as a part of the newest Home windows 11 22H2 replace.
“Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the online, your work information and what you’re doing within the second in your PC to offer higher help – along with your privateness and safety on the forefront,” Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi mentioned.
“With the characteristic replace, Copilot in Home windows can be on by default, however beneath your management with Microsoft Intune coverage or Group Coverage,” Microsoft’s Harjit Dhaliwal added in a separate enterprise weblog put up.
Microsoft additionally means that Cortana customers can change with a few of its different lately 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.