I mean, have you tried using it? Why open Cortana and tell it to open Outlook when you can simply double-click its desktop shortcut? Is Cortana useful? However, having an AI assistant on a desktop computer or a laptop is simply redundant. Unfortunately, for those of us who use Windows 10, Cortana is still a sad reality, as after every major(ish) update most of us are still struggling to disable it.ĭon’t get me wrong, the idea of having a digital assistant makes perfect sense on a smartphone, as the ability to multitask on such a device is somewhat limited compared to that of a desktop computer, for instance. If you’ve been a fan of the Halo game series, you may be familiar with this name, seeing as in this game Cortana was a smart AI construct that was essential to how the plot of the game unfolded.Ĭortana was originally designed to work as a smartphone assistant on Windows mobile devices, but considering that Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows Phone in 2017 and officially ended support 2 years later, this smart AI assistant starts to look more and more like a technological relic.
As you may have already known, Microsoft developed and introduced a digital personal assistant with their flagship operating system, Windows 10, which they called Cortana.
