Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.::Microsoft has discontinued Cortana on Windows 11. The digital assistant no longer functions as a standalone app, years after Microsoft shut down its Cortana iOS and Android apps.

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I miss that era of Microsoft.

    Cortana being insanely fun to use, Windows Phone existing, the future looking pretty cool.

    Then Microsoft Microsoft-ed so hard they had to end it all

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      11 months ago

      Is this missing a /s? I genuinely can’t tell. All I can remember from that era was people shitting on them for windows 8.

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        11 months ago

        Metro was genius on Windows Phone. Not so much on Windows 8.

        What was even worse than Metro on Windows 8 was Metro on Windows 2008. OMFG… the amount nervous breakdowns I’ve had when remoting a server in a window, trying to click the pixel in the bottom left corner to access the start menu.

    • starman@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      There is still .NET which is best microsoft-made thing in existence IMO. And it’s open source.