Following through on its July 2020 announcement, Microsoft has ended support for the Cortana app on Android and iPhone.

BY Paul Thurrott with 41 Comments
Following through on its July 2020 announcement, Microsoft has ended support for the Cortana app on Android and iPhone.
BY Paul Thurrott with 50 Comments
Harman Kardon will soon release a software update for its Invoke smart speaker which removes Cortana and turns it into a standard Bluetooth speaker.
BY Paul Thurrott with 64 Comments
A Microsoft support document reveals that the firm will end support for Cortana on mobile, the Invoke smart speaker, and Surface Headphones.
BY Paul Thurrott with 27 Comments
This week Microsoft provided our first peek at the future of Cortana. And only one thing is clear: This brand needs to die. It’s just pointless.
BY Paul Thurrott with 12 Comments
The new standalone Cortana app is now available, as are some related new Cortana experiences across Microsoft 365.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 29 Comments
Microsoft is defining Cortana's role in Windows 10 with the new Cortana experience, which focuses mainly on productivity features, expected to ship with the Windows 10 version 2004 sometime soon.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 52 Comments
Microsoft's slowly killing the Harman Kardon Invoke, as users in the US start facing major problems with the Cortana-powered speaker.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 9 Comments
Microsoft introduces new features for the Cortana beta on Windows 10 as part of its effort to evolve the assistant from a regular assistant to a productivity-focused assistant.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 51 Comments
Microsoft is shutting down the Cortana mobile apps in some countries as the company focuses on new productivity-focused strategy for the personal assistant.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 8 Comments
Microsoft is putting Cortana across Outlook, and it's promising major new advancements in Cortana's natural conversational interactions for the near future.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 9 Comments
Microsoft used real humans to listen to your voice recordings collected from Kinect and Cortana on the Xbox One.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 24 Comments
The Cortana-powered thermostat is no longer a Cortana-powered thermostat. Alexa play Sad Trombone.
BY Paul Thurrott with 29 Comments
Microsoft revealed this week that it will remove Cortana from Xbox One and will evolve how voice commands work on the console.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 28 Comments
Microsoft has been slowly splitting up Cortana from Windows 10, and it's now working on a standalone app for the personal assistant.
BY Paul Thurrott with 14 Comments
Microsoft, an also-ran in the market for digital personal assistants, has issued a report about digital personal assistants.
BY Paul Thurrott with 18 Comments
Alphabet’s most recent annual report dropped Microsoft from a list of competitors in the digital assistant market.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 31 Comments
Cortana gets new features that let you automate your smart home devices.
BY Paul Thurrott with 136 Comments
In a stunning bit of transparency, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that Cortana will never be competitive with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 56 Comments
Windows 10's setup experience is a long, annoying experience. Silencing Cortana doesn't solve the problem.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 11 Comments
Windows 10's simplified password-less login experience is now available for all editions of the OS to Insiders.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 15 Comments
Google Assistant wins the Smart Speaker IQ Test, followed by Siri, Alexa, and Cortana.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 15 Comments
Microsoft is working on integrating Cortana into Outlook mobile.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 22 Comments
You can now use Cortana to sync your lists and reminders with Microsoft To-Do.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 22 Comments
Microsoft could be splitting up Cortana and Search on the Windows 10 taskbar.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 16 Comments
Cortana will soon allow you to add up to 6 users on your smart speaker or the Xbox One.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 7 Comments
Spotify introduces improved experience for the Xbox One.
BY Paul Thurrott with 18 Comments
It's yet another not-so-subtle indication that Microsoft is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant