Cortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech and trained her to show the same kind of sassy personality as in the games and it would have been perfect.

Who in their right mind thinks "Bing copilot" is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from Airplane!

I was told I can't remove it becuaee it is critical to windows system....

The only Windows update I'm gonna be happy to install asap

Entirely unsurprising to virtually everyone. Both them and Google release a ton of shovelware, just to fill a gap in the market, and it's never about being the best. It's always about being the first, no matter how poor the product's design or quality are

Now that games run so well on Linux I have pretty much shut down windows in it's entirety from my life. It has been a long time coming and it feels great!

I keep a Windows partition around for special cases but I have not had to use it in a long time. Starfeild will probably force me into it for the first time in a long time. The whole Windows experience is insulting to anyone with any self respect. It has not always been this way.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A new update is rolling out for Cortana that simply disables the digital assistant three years after Microsoft also discontinued its Cortana apps for iOS and Android.

If you attempt to launch Cortana on Windows 11 you’ll now be met with a notice about how the app is deprecated and a link to a support article on the change.

It was deeply integrated into the Windows 10 taskbar, with support for voice commands, reminders, and the ability to open applications.

Microsoft then dropped Cortana from the Windows 11 taskbar and first boot experience, but kept the standalone app until this week.

Ultimately, Cortana struggled to compete with rivals like Alexa or Google Assistant, despite a large redesign for iOS and Android.

The fate of Cortana was largely linked to Microsoft’s failures with Windows Phone, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admitted in 2019 that Cortana had fallen behind competitors.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Clippy 3.0 incoming...

Dig a shallow grave next to Windows Phone, Zune, and IE. C'mon guys, you need to catch up to the size of Google's graveyard.

Still can't uninstall it

Man I'm so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)

They fail at every attempt to innovate

Master Chief isn’t going to like this…

Waited until after WAN Show.

Pussies.

Did Cortana consent to this? Maybe she'll find her way back on her own..

Now kill Cortana in Halo 7

Microsoft's "Edge" was Project Spartan at one point wasn't it? Probably would have confused a lot of people if it came out that way but would've been pretty cool.

Such a missed opportunity. I loved Windows Phone and Cortana was good enough at the time but now with Bing AI I wonder what Cortana could really have been.

Wegen do they shut down windows 11?

Next…Microsoft kills the popups to search with the new Bing AI, and makes it so you do not accidentally bring up their curated news feed that flies in form the left side on Windows 11.

"Copilot" aka AI-Manipulation-Brainwash-pilot

Hey copilot, what is virus.zip that is on my desktop.