Farewell, Cortana.
  • backgroundcow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    2 years 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
      14·
      2 years 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·
      2 years 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.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 years 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
    33·
    2 years 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
      7·
      2 years 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.

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Are there still games that just don’t run on linux? I messed around with it like 6 years ago but didn’t dig too deep, because my main 3 games were the ones that didn’t run on linux.

      • Helldiver_M@kbin.social
        9·
        2 years ago

        Destiny 2 comes to mind. Bungie has indicated there’s 0 interest in making it compatible with Linux ever.

        Usually if it can’t run on Linux it’s because of kernel level anti-cheat. The vast majority of Steam’s library works out of the box with Proton nowadays.

      • mihnt@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        Roblox doesn’t run on Linux at the moment because the devs have blocked proton and wine. Which, well, pisses me off because I want to put Linux on my daughter’s PC.

    • zaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 years 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.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    Dig a shallow grave next to Windows Phone, Zune, and IE. C’mon guys, you need to catch up to the size of Google’s graveyard.

        • DonCronkhonker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Both of them still work! One is a black 32 gb original Zune. The other one is the Platinum Zune HD, which, imo, was ahead of it’s time. If I remember, I’ll take a pic of both of them working and update this post :)

          • mihnt@kbin.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            From what I know, they can be upgraded to larger hard drives and better batteries.

    • Doorknob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I still have a Lumia 930 in my drawer with WP 8.1. It was such a wonderful OS to use in look and feel. Had Cortana (alpha) on it too.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years 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)

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Next…Microsoft kills the popups to search with the new Bing AI, and makes it so you do not accidentally bring up their curated news feed that flies in form the left side on Windows 11.