Microsoft is killing Cortana on Windows starting late 2023

I've used that feature twice at most and I install Windows on different PCs multiple times a week. I've never used Cortana after installing Windows.

 

It was renamed, not killed, it is The Search after all, but MS will say anything to make concerned users happy.

 

It's not gone yet? It was actually useful on Windows Phone, but hasn't served a purpose since then.

 

It was the first thing I'd turn off after install. And with not planning to move to Win11 I'm hoping to avoid Copilot (or whatever it will be called).

Funny, for those who grew up with Star Trek, Star Wars, the Jetsons, Knight Rider, Transformers, and similar, as kids we thought being able to talk to your car/ship/R2 unit was super cool ... and here we are at the dawn of the technology in real life and we're turning these services off.

 

Never used it so no great loss.

 

True, but to be fair, I tried it out, when it actually started back in Vista or so, but by the time I said the command and Windows performed it, I could have done it 5 times using the mouse. A proper dictating is even slower than typing.