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Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A "sassy personality" just puts the assistant into the uncanny valley for me. I prefer it to just do its job and not try to fool me into anthropomorphizing it.

But the name was pretty cool, though, as noted by another commenter, not the easiest to pronounce.