SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has introduced that it’s going to now not help its digital assistant Cortana in Home windows as a standalone app, beginning in late 2023.
This modification will solely have an effect on Cortana in Home windows and can proceed to be out there in Outlook cellular, Groups cellular, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups rooms, the tech big mentioned in a help web page.
“As an alternative of clicking the Cortana icon and launching the app to start utilizing voice, now you should utilize voice and fulfill your productiveness wants by means of totally different instruments,” it added.
In 2021, the tech big had introduced it will finish help for its Cortana app on each Android and iOS gadgets.
The corporate first launched Cortana for iOS and Android in December 2015.
The app was designed to attach Home windows 10 PCs and cellphones however failed to realize momentum as Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri gained the race.