Farewell, Cortana.
  • @backgroundcow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71•2 years ago

    Cortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech and trained her to show the same kind of sassy personality as in the games and it would have been perfect.

    Who in their right mind thinks “Bing copilot” is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from Airplane!

    • @sic_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15•2 years ago

      Cortana was a great name also because in Halo she turned evil, which is fitting for an MS product. Bing copilot gives me strong Clippy vibes.

    • @stigmata@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      I agree. At first I thought the goal was to get rid of an assistant in general, but just renaming it to something worse is confusing.

    • @kelvie@lemmy.caEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I don’t know why but out of all of the alternatives I found Alexa by far the easiest to say (sorry to all the people named Alexa out there). Okay google, hey Siri, Bixby, Cortana are just hard to pronounce.

    • @zaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22•2 years ago

      Don’t get too excited. They’re just doing it so it doesn’t get in the way of the Ai they’ll be putting on there.

  • dinckelEnglish
    37•2 years ago

    Entirely unsurprising to virtually everyone. Both them and Google release a ton of shovelware, just to fill a gap in the market, and it’s never about being the best. It’s always about being the first, no matter how poor the product’s design or quality are

  • @RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29•2 years ago

    Now that games run so well on Linux I have pretty much shut down windows in it’s entirety from my life. It has been a long time coming and it feels great!

    I keep a Windows partition around for special cases but I have not had to use it in a long time. Starfeild will probably force me into it for the first time in a long time. The whole Windows experience is insulting to anyone with any self respect. It has not always been this way.

    • Rob T FireflyEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      Even for non-gamers, the magic dust that keeps many Windows games usable on Linux can also be used for non-game Windows apps and everyone can benefit from those compatibility leaps and bounds.

      If you’re one of those people who like Linux but still need to have a Windows install to run That One App for work or whatever, WINE/Proton/etc. may be of use to you.

    • @Cheshire@feddit.deEnglish
      10•2 years ago

      Don’t get your hopes up.

      Microsoft is now working on Windows Copilot, a new sidebar for Windows 11 that is powered by Bing Chat and can control Windows settings, answer questions, and lots more.

      They’re already working on a successor.

  • @Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    Man I’m so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)

  • @doctor_han@lemmy.caEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    Microsoft’s “Edge” was Project Spartan at one point wasn’t it? Probably would have confused a lot of people if it came out that way but would’ve been pretty cool.

  • XenGiEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    Wegen do they shut down windows 11?