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“Poured out for the last time: $146M in beans, no profit, all heart.”
“She set our reminders and answered our questions; we never thanked her enough.”
Cortana was Microsoft's virtual assistant, first released in April 2014, that used the Bing search engine to handle tasks like setting reminders and answering questions. It spoke to users in eight languages, from English and Spanish to Chinese and Japanese, depending on platform and region. For a while, it was the friendly voice living in the Windows 10 search bar.
The goodbye was long and orderly: Microsoft began reducing Cortana's role in 2019, splitting it from the Windows search bar that April, and shut down the mobile app globally on March 31, 2021. In June 2023, Microsoft announced the standalone Windows app would end in late 2023, with support in Outlook and Microsoft 365 mobile apps discontinued around the same time. Cortana's successor, Microsoft Copilot, now holds the
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“Poured out for the last time: $146M in beans, no profit, all heart.”
“Checkmated at last — folded gracefully into a bigger board, never into oblivion.”
“The little dongle that made every dumb TV feel like a smart one.”