Microsoft is announcing the death of Cortana’s mobile apps today. The company is shutting down Cortana for Android and iOS in early 2020.
The news comes shortly after the company announced some major Microsoft 365 and Cortana integrations were it’s integrating Cortana into other mobile apps like Outlook.
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The death of Cortana’s Android and iOS apps will also mean some of its functionalities will be removed from the Microsoft Launcher app on Android. The company isn’t shutting down the app everywhere, though. In fact, it seems like the Cortana app will continue to exist for those in the US — for now, anyway. And as MSPU reports, the Cortana app only seems to be going away in certain countries like the UK, Australia, and Canada. It’s possible the app is shutting down in other markets, too.
Cortana’s mobile apps will officially go away on January 31st, 2020. It’s definitely not surprising to see Microsoft killing Cortana’s mobile apps, though. Lately, the apps were only really useful for controlling Cortana devices like Surface Headphones. The move is quite interesting as Microsoft is still working on a brand-new Cortana app for Windows 10. It seems like Microsoft’s strategy for Cortana going forward is to integrate the personal assistant in useful ways on its other services instead of making it a “standalone” assistant like Google Assistant or Siri. It’s a change many Cortana fans probably won’t enjoy.
Bats
<p>This is not surprising, because no one uses it. After all, why install a 3rd party assistant, when the Google Assistant is way much better and is built natively into the Android? Same goes for iOS. </p><p><br></p><p>Again, no one uses it. I think Microsoft believes that there "brand" is in huge demand. WHy is that? Microsoft makes computers, right? Yet, hardly anyone buys them despite the fact that 4 out of the 5 computer manufacturers sell Windows on their computers. </p><p><br></p><p>It's really hard to tell what Microsoft can do now. Just focus on their bread and butter, enterprises and office? </p>
dontbeevil
<p>Misleading title as usual, cortana is not going to be killed, but will not support some countries anymore</p>
Stooks
<p>No big deal. </p><p><br></p><p>Honestly I do not know anyone that uses ANY voice assistants with regular use. I bet most Android/iOS users use their voice assistants less than 1% of the time.</p><p><br></p><p>Personally if I use Siri once a month that would be a lot. I think the last time I used Siri was to get baseball game score during the playoffs while at work. </p><p><br></p><p> </p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#489841">In reply to JimP:</a></em></blockquote><p>It's usual thurrot article when comes to uwp, cortana, store… </p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#489914">In reply to Daishi:</a></em></blockquote><p>you realize that's basically different from what the title scream, right?</p>
dontbeevil
<blockquote><em><a href="#489889">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>classic, are you still surprised? that's thurrot.com for you</p>
charu490
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