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Replacing The Cortana Voice Assistant In Windows

By The End Of This Year, Microsoft Will End Support For The Cortana Voice Assistant In Windows, And Users Will Have To Look For Alternatives To This Service.

Microsoft announced it would end support for the Cortana voice assistant on Windows starting next year. The Cortana voice assistant was launched in April 2014, and now, after nearly a decade, the Redmonds have decided to disable this digital assistant in the Windows operating system.

Now the question arises about what plans Microsoft has to replace the voice above assistant. In this article, we introduce Microsoft’s advanced tools to replace Cortana.

Cortana logo

When will the Cortana voice assistant reach the end of its journey?

According to Microsoft’s recent announcement, this company will no longer support Cortana as an independent program in Windows from the end of this year. Of course, this is not the whole story, and Microsoft is moving towards using modern artificial intelligence tools released after Cortana. Among these tools, Bing browser artificial intelligence can be mentioned.

According to Makeuseof, Microsoft has been planning to remove Cortana from its services for several years; Because in 2021, the Android and iOS versions disabled this voice assistant. Also, the voice above assistant is no longer enabled by default on the Windows 11 operating system.

Will Cortana be permanently disabled?

Although Microsoft’s voice assistant is less known than Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant, some still use Cortana in their work. For this purpose, Microsoft continues to support this tool in some of its programs.

According to Microsoft, Cortana will be disabled only in Windows 11, and users of some of the company’s services, such as Mobile Teams, Outlook Mobile, Microsoft Teams Display, and Microsoft Teams Room, can still use this digital assistant.

If you want an alternative to Cortana in Windows, you can use the four tools introduced below.

1. Voice Access

Microsoft has developed a feature called Voice Access in Windows 11 so that users of this operating system, including disabled people, can control the computer with their voice.

With this feature, you can use it for things like switching between apps, checking emails, and even searching the web. Of course, this feature is available in the 2H22 version of Windows.

2. Microsoft Bing with AI-powered search

One of the exciting features of Cortana in the Windows operating system was that people could search the web using it. Microsoft has further improved the possibility of searching the web by introducing a new version of the Bing browser equipped with artificial intelligence.

New version of Bing with artificial intelligence ChatGPT unofficial home page

The new version of the Bing search engine can answer users’ complex questions by accessing reliable sources on the web. Using the latest version of Bing, you can make a report of your chat history and save it. Meanwhile, accessing chats in Cortana is complicated.

3. Windows Copilot

Windows Copilot is the latest service introduced by Microsoft. This tool based on artificial intelligence is almost similar to the new version of the Bing search engine, which you can use to ask your questions to get the answer you want as quickly as possible.

Windows Copilot logo

Kopilot’s capabilities go beyond questions and answers; you can use them to experience a conversation based on artificial intelligence. Also, other features of this service include changing the keyboard’s layout, turning off Bluetooth, increasing screen brightness, etc. With this tool, you don’t need to go to the settings menu for every minor change, and you can stay focused on your work.

4. Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-based assistant for Microsoft 356 apps and services. This AI assistant helps you easily create Excel charts or PowerPoint.

Conclusion

Although Microsoft will officially end support for Cortana by the end of this year, the company provides you with many tools, most of which are based on artificial intelligence.

Microsoft developed the tools introduced in this article, which you can use instead of the Cortana voice assistant. It should be noted that services such as Windows Copilot and Voice Access are only available for Windows 11, and users of other versions of Windows cannot use these two tools.