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. We’ve got ended assist for Cortana,” Home windows Insider staff members Amanda Langowski and Brandon LeBlanc introduced immediately.
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 assist for the Home windows standalone Cortana app in a assist doc revealed 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 can even finish within the fall of 2023,” Microsoft stated on the time.
“This modification solely impacts Cortana in Home windows, and your productiveness assistant, Cortana, will proceed to be out there in Outlook cellular, Groups cellular, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups rooms.”
Right now, 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
Right now’s announcement comes after Redmond stated it dropped assist 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 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 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 supply higher help – together with your privateness and safety on the forefront,” Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi stated.
“With the characteristic replace, Copilot in Home windows shall be on by default, however underneath 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 exchange with a few of its different just lately launched merchandise, together with the brand new AI-powered Bing search engine and Voice entry in Home windows 11 to regulate PCs with their voices.