Even virtual employees aren’t safe from the artificial intelligence revolution replacing them, as evidenced by Microsoft’s Cortana app for Windows getting the boot later this year in favor of the ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Microsoft is shutting down its digital assistant app Cortana this month, having now put more of its focus on modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity ...

A Microsoft job ad is seeking a engineer to help build the next generation of Cortana and redefine the Windows experience. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Cortana isn’t dead, but it’s no longer an Alexa competitor Cortana isn’t dead, but it’s no longer an Alexa competitor is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

It could be a race between Apple and Microsoft as to who gets a voice assistant on the desktop first As a boy, from the first time I saw “Star Trek,” I thought it would be incredibly cool to say ...

Just when we thought that Microsoft and Cortana would stay forever, the Redmond giant announced that it's killing its long-time AI assistant on Windows. This means that the standalone app will no ...

When Microsoft launched the Windows 10 May 2019 Update last month to the public, one of the big changes came with how the Cortana virtual assistant is presented to the user. Previously, Cortana and ...

Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) $10 billion investment in OpenAI and the success of ChatGPT has claimed its first casualty – Cortana. Microsoft is killing its smart assistant in Windows 11. What ...

Microsoft is working to cram its new ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat service into every product it makes, and starting this fall it will be a built-in feature of Windows 11. It makes sense, then, that ...

Microsoft has been distancing Cortana from Windows for months. First, it split the virtual assistant from search in Windows 10. Then, a beta version of a standalone Cortana app appeared on the Windows ...

Microsoft will shut down Cortana on a wide range of devices, reflecting the challenge for third-party voice assistants attempting to compete with built-in programs like Apple’s Siri and Google ...