Farewell, Cortana.
  • backgroundcow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    1 year ago

    Cortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech and trained her to show the same kind of sassy personality as in the games and it would have been perfect.

    Who in their right mind thinks “Bing copilot” is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from Airplane!

    • sic_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      Cortana was a great name also because in Halo she turned evil, which is fitting for an MS product. Bing copilot gives me strong Clippy vibes.

    • stigmata@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I agree. At first I thought the goal was to get rid of an assistant in general, but just renaming it to something worse is confusing.

    • zaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Don’t get too excited. They’re just doing it so it doesn’t get in the way of the Ai they’ll be putting on there.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    Entirely unsurprising to virtually everyone. Both them and Google release a ton of shovelware, just to fill a gap in the market, and it’s never about being the best. It’s always about being the first, no matter how poor the product’s design or quality are

  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Now that games run so well on Linux I have pretty much shut down windows in it’s entirety from my life. It has been a long time coming and it feels great!

    I keep a Windows partition around for special cases but I have not had to use it in a long time. Starfeild will probably force me into it for the first time in a long time. The whole Windows experience is insulting to anyone with any self respect. It has not always been this way.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Even for non-gamers, the magic dust that keeps many Windows games usable on Linux can also be used for non-game Windows apps and everyone can benefit from those compatibility leaps and bounds.

      If you’re one of those people who like Linux but still need to have a Windows install to run That One App for work or whatever, WINE/Proton/etc. may be of use to you.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Man I’m so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)

      • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        There was already an entire cloud market when azure appeared . They just followed the wave . If you are going to give cloud as an example talk me about Oracle or VMware .