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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. (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No /s. Genuine love for Metro on Windows Phone.

[–] starman 2 points 1 year ago

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