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Microsoft is shutting down Cortana app for iOS, Android

Sunday, 17th November 2019

Cortana, Microsoft's computerised aide, will never again be accessible as an independent application to clients in select markets including India, Australia, the UK, China, Spain, and Canada, among others. Microsoft will pull the demand in these business sectors on January 31, 2020.

After the shutdown, Cortana application clients won't have the option to utilise critical capacities, for example, updates and records. Clients, be that as it may, can get to these highlights through Cortana on Windows.

The move, be that as it may, doesn't mean Microsoft is closing down the Cortana computerised collaborator. Going ahead, Microsoft will offer Cortana as a significant aspect of Microsoft 365 applications.

"To make your advanced partner as supportive as would be prudent, we're coordinating Cortana into your Microsoft 365 profitability applications. As a component of this development, on January 31, 2020, we're finishing support for the Cortana application on Android and iOS in your market," said Microsoft on its help page.

"By then, the Cortana content you made, for example, updates and records will never again work in the Cortana portable application or Microsoft Launcher, however, can even now be gotten to through Cortana on Windows. Additionally, Cortana updates, records, and errands are consequently synchronised to the Microsoft To-Do application, which you can download to your telephone for nothing," it included.

Microsoft presented Cortana as an independent application on iOS and Android in 2015. Since the dispatch, Microsoft has coordinated the Cortana advanced aide with a large number of its forms and administrations including Skype and Outlook. Even though Cortana has gotten a lot more brilliant from its unique symbol, the advanced collaborator hasn't removed how Google's Assistant and Amazon's Alexa have.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as of late conceded that Cortana never again contends with Google or Alexa. "You ought to have the option to utilize it on Google Assistant; you ought to have the option to utilize it on Alexa, much the same as how you utilize our applications on Android and iOS, so that is in any event how we need to consider where it'll go," Nadella had said.

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