New page in the long goodbye to Cortana, the virtual assistant launched by Microsoft almost a decade ago. Redmonds decided that before 2024 They will stop supporting it in Windows 10 and 11. The announcement came shortly after the company launched Windows Copilot for Windows 11, a tool based on Bing Chat that can provide personalized responses and assist users in the operating system.

“We’re making some changes that will impact users of the Cortana app on Windows. Starting late 20213, we will no longer support Cortana as a stand-alone app on Windows.” Available in Outlook mobile, Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams screen, and Microsoft Teams rooms”.

Evidence of the change in betting is that those from Redmond benefited from the announcement. alternatively to increase AI tools he quotes from Bing Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot, or Windows Copilot. “It provides centralized AI assistance that will be available in preview for Windows 11 in June,” the company says in this latest resource.

Just a few days ago, Redmond employees introduced Windows Copilot for Windows 11 during the Microsoft Build 2023 conference, where it was presented as a virtual assistant that can be placed on a side panel to provide personalized responses and ease operating system management.

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Cortana on Windows actually pnothing surprising. Not only because of the announcement of Windows Copilot and the use of artificial intelligence, but also because of the drift of the dwindling virtual assistant, which was first presented at a conference for developers nine years ago.

With Windows 11, Cortana lost its then-predominant position in the taskbar, lost from the startup experience, and in 2021 Microsoft also discontinued support for the Cortana app on iOS and Android.

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