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Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by sp332 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:32AM (#24020308)
> they're ending support for the standalone Cortana apps, which makes sense

This is actually the hardest part for me to understand. They want me to drag a Win10 laptop everywhere to use the assistant instead of just using my phone?

Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by jdmichal on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:24AM (#24028879)
You mean your phone that has its own built-in, unswappable assistant? Since Windows Phone died[0], I can't blame them for getting out of a business where they are immediately outleveraged by the competition.

[0] I say this with lament, because it was IMO a legitimately good phone OS. My Lumia 920 is still my backup phone, 8 years later, because the ones I got after that died before replacement. But the death was certainly not a surprise. Once they started adding more features to Android apps than existed in the Windows Phone versions, the writing was on the wall about where the money was going.

Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by culturestate on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:44AM (#24020793)
They're adding it to the Teams and Outlook apps and pushing Cortana toward businesses.