Goodbye Cortana, welcome Copilot

Some time ago, Microsoft introduced the new Windows Copilot project, which finally announces the retirement of Cortana for Windows desktop computers. The tech giant has announced that it will stop supporting the standalone Cortana app for Windows towards the end of this year. In 2014, Microsoft introduced Cortana as a voice assistant for Windows mobile devices. It was their answer to Apple's Siri, but it never reached its level of recognition and popularity.

Over the years, Microsoft has steadily shrunk the development of the voice assistant, ending the stand-alone app for Android and iOS in 2021. The company has even removed it from partner devices such as smart speakers. For Windows specifically, Microsoft has changed its status as a built-in assistant, preferring to turn it into a standalone computer program. And in this form, we will say goodbye to her at the end of the year.

A year ago, however, Microsoft revealed that it plans to integrate artificial intelligence deep into the Windows 11 operating system with the help of the Copilot tool, which will be available in the sidebar of the platform. And that happened a while ago. Microsoft included the Copilot artificial intelligence in the early trial version of the Windows 11 operating system. The novelty can be easily invoked both by clicking on the dedicated icon and by using the "Windows+C" key combination.

The Copilot digital assistant can perform many tasks for users. Among them, we find the inclusion of dark mode, the activation of the "do not disturb" mode, the capture of the screen image, the restoration of the website and much more. As already mentioned, Copilot is currently only available in the development version of the Windows 11 operating system. However, the novelty could soon become part of our everyday life.