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End of Support for Cortana in Windows

29 points by 1e 3y ago

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rahkiin 3y ago
Does anyone know how I can let my corporate IT office disable Cortana on my windows 10 laptop? It keeps showing up and cannot be closed once it does: it stays in your alt-tab history until force quitting through process manager…
- zahrc 3y ago
  https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165920 https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165...
- pseudostem 3y ago
  Here you go https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
- vips7L 3y ago
  You can uninstall Cortana via winget.
9dev 3y ago
I’ve mentioned this before; why can’t we have an assistant cobbled up to GPT-4 and one of those new voice Synthesizers you can’t discern from a real person anymore? Of all vendors, wouldn’t Microsoft be predestined to pull this off? It feels like all components are laid out neatly, but nobody connects them into a coherent product. Does anybody know why that is?
- js4ever 3y ago
  Because of Latency ...
- rocode2 3y ago
  I think it’s because of these 2 reasons 1. GPU’s are expensive and difficult to get in quantities that microsoft would need. 2. Given (1) I would expect microsoft to use their GPU’s where where its easier to monetize or its of strategic importance(bing, M365, Azure) Building a GPT4 based cortana could be a much lower priority right now. Disclaimer: I’m a microsoft employee, the opinion is my own.
- Shawnj2 3y ago
  Someone had a phone number set up a while back that routed into ChatGPT that worked decently well.
easton 3y ago
How will helpdesk get along when Cortana isn't there to welcome them every time they get a new PC to be imaged? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2rhM8YUZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2rhM8YUZY (I actually had this happen when I worked in helpdesk, because unattend.xml would take long enough to kick in after a reimage that she would start talking, then get cut off)
- skeaker 3y ago
  I remember this fondly. Fortunately now that it's gone Mac OS has taken up the mantle of having a loud TTS jumpscare you on startup. It's quite common to hear "MAC OS CONTAINS A BUILT IN SCREEN READER," followed quickly by the mute button being mashed.
CrimpCity 3y ago
Thank god

29 points by 1e 3y ago

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Does anyone know how I can let my corporate IT office disable Cortana on my windows 10 laptop? It keeps showing up and cannot be closed once it does: it stays in your alt-tab history until force quitting through process manager…

zahrc 3y ago
https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165920 https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165...
pseudostem 3y ago
Here you go https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
vips7L 3y ago
You can uninstall Cortana via winget.

9dev 3y ago

I’ve mentioned this before; why can’t we have an assistant cobbled up to GPT-4 and one of those new voice Synthesizers you can’t discern from a real person anymore? Of all vendors, wouldn’t Microsoft be predestined to pull this off? It feels like all components are laid out neatly, but nobody connects them into a coherent product. Does anybody know why that is?

js4ever 3y ago
Because of Latency ...
rocode2 3y ago
I think it’s because of these 2 reasons 1. GPU’s are expensive and difficult to get in quantities that microsoft would need. 2. Given (1) I would expect microsoft to use their GPU’s where where its easier to monetize or its of strategic importance(bing, M365, Azure) Building a GPT4 based cortana could be a much lower priority right now. Disclaimer: I’m a microsoft employee, the opinion is my own.
Shawnj2 3y ago
Someone had a phone number set up a while back that routed into ChatGPT that worked decently well.

easton 3y ago

How will helpdesk get along when Cortana isn't there to welcome them every time they get a new PC to be imaged? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2rhM8YUZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2rhM8YUZY (I actually had this happen when I worked in helpdesk, because unattend.xml would take long enough to kick in after a reimage that she would start talking, then get cut off)

skeaker 3y ago
I remember this fondly. Fortunately now that it's gone Mac OS has taken up the mantle of having a loud TTS jumpscare you on startup. It's quite common to hear "MAC OS CONTAINS A BUILT IN SCREEN READER," followed quickly by the mute button being mashed.

CrimpCity 3y ago

Thank god