Cortana hit the market in 2015 with Windows 10, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, a version that little by little has managed to gain half the market share and where Windows 7 still has an important presence. However, since it does not have its own mobile or speaker platform, it has decided to change its plans and focus on productivity.
Microsoft announced late last year that I would retire the Cortana app from iOS (an application that was never available outside the United States) and that the Microsoft Launcher on Android would eliminate the Cortana assistant. During the first months of this year, the guys at Satya Nadella have fulfilled that announcement and Cortana is no longer on mobile devices.
But are not the only ones. The smart speaker invoke which he launched in collaboration with Harman Kardon in 2017 will also remove Cortana. It will do so in early 2021. Most of the users who bought this speaker did not do so because of Cortana, but because of the quality that this speaker offers. Still, all users who purchased it will receive a check for $ 50 for the inconvenience.
The Surface headphones that Microsoft launched a couple of years ago on the market, will also remove support for Cortana in early 2021. Microsoft was late to the attendee market, without its own speaker platform or mobile devices and in order not to continue wasting resources, it has decided to focus the advances it has made with Cortana in recent years on productivity.
Last year, Microsoft added support for Cortana to the English version of Outlook for iOS, so that Microsoft's assistant can can read both pending read emails and calendar appointments. Cortana will be part of Microsoft 365, according to the company and will be integrated into applications natively and independently of the device's operating system.