Microsoft will kill off its Cortana app for Android and iOS early next year. A newly published support article from Microsoft notes that the software will be withdrawn from these major app stores on ...

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 skills will no longer be available in the upcoming updated Cortana experience on Windows 10. Cortana will instead focus on productivity. Microsoft says that "some consumer skills including ...

Microsoft’s Cortana will soon be removed from the Johnson Controls GLAS smart thermostat, a device once thought to be a flagship smart home product for the digital assistant when it was first unveiled ...

Microsoft has announced a big change in how the Cortana search box in Windows 10 will work going forward: All searches will be powered by Bing, and all links will open with the Edge browser. This is a ...

Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

A year after quietly adding support for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant (alongside Microsoft's Cortana) to its Windows 10-powered GLAS smart thermostat, Johnson Controls is dropping Cortana. Johnson ...

Cortana on Windows 10 is getting some changes, Microsoft announced today, as the company shifts focus for what it wants its personal assistant to be. The new Cortana will emphasize productivity ...

Microsoft has fused a number of its new data processing technologies into a single package designed to help organizations get more value from their growing piles of data. The new suite, called Cortana ...

The AI-powered voice assistant will also help schedule meetings, as Microsoft continues to reposition Cortana as a powerful enterprise assistant. Microsoft is pushing ahead with plans to position ...

Microsoft’s Cortana-powered consumer speakers are dead. Long live…Cortana powered Teams speakers? During a Microsoft Ignite keynote by Jared Spataro, the vice president of Microsoft 365, Microsoft ...

These changes are still a few months away, but it marks another big step for Microsoft in pivoting Cortana away from a Google Assistant or Alexa alternative to a more specialized, productivity-focused ...