{"id":59062,"date":"2020-08-03T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2686108"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:10:00","slug":"microsoft-is-shutting-down-cortana-on-multiple-devices-including-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/03\/microsoft-is-shutting-down-cortana-on-multiple-devices-including-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is shutting down Cortana on multiple devices, including iOS and Android."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4000-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/t0EwRRJJnat6HYroNP5A2OJO8mo=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67139413\/acastro_180510_1777_cortana_0002.0.jpg\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/t0EwRRJJnat6HYroNP5A2OJO8mo=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67139413\/acastro_180510_1777_cortana_0002.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/t0EwRRJJnat6HYroNP5A2OJO8mo=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67139413\/acastro_180510_1777_cortana_0002.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is rethinking its Cortana assistant, announcing that&nbsp;it will shut downthe current iOS and Android apps, end Cortana support for the&nbsp;Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker, and remove the original Cortana functionality from the first-generation&nbsp;Surface Headphones&nbsp;starting in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>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 assistant &mdash;&nbsp;changes the company has already started making&nbsp;on the Windows 10 version of Cortana earlier this year. (To that end, Microsoft also put a September 7th date on the already-announced sunsetting of third-party Cortana skills for Windows.)<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>Microsoft will focus on its productivity features<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Instead, Microsoft will be focusing on its productivity features that repurpose Cortana as a part of the Microsoft 365 suite of software, citing the revamped Windows 10 functions and integrated Cortana features in the Outlook and Teams apps as replacements. It&rsquo;s not as full-featured as the original Cortana &mdash; which offered additional functions like smart home controls and music integration &mdash; but by offering a less broad set of features, Microsoft is hoping to create a product that better complements its existing software and competes less directly with established players like Google and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also offering a consolation offer of a $50 gift card for Harman Kardon Invoke owners, who&rsquo;ll be most impacted by the removal of Cortana &mdash; which effectively will turn the formerly smart device into a pricey Bluetooth speaker when the firmware update arrives next year. Owners of the original Surface Headphones (who will also see their Cortana experience removed) are also being offered a $25 gift card to make up for the missing service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/31\/21349827\/microsoft-cortana-shutdown-devices-ios-android\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/31\/21349827\/microsoft-cortana-shutdown-devices-ios-android<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Chaim Gartenberg <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Chaim Gartenberg <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4000-logo.png\" alt=\"\">Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge Microsoft is rethinking its Cortana assistant, announcing that&nbsp;it will shut downthe current iOS and Android apps, end Cortana support for the&nbsp;Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker, and remove the original Cortana functionality from the first-generation&nbsp;Surface Headphones&nbsp;starting in 2021. These changes are still a few months away, but it marks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/08\/03\/microsoft-is-shutting-down-cortana-on-multiple-devices-including-ios-and-android-2\/\">Continue reading <span>Microsoft is shutting down Cortana on multiple devices, including iOS and Android.<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/03\/microsoft-is-shutting-down-cortana-on-multiple-devices-including-ios-and-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft is shutting down Cortana on multiple devices, including iOS and Android. - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/08\/03\/microsoft-is-shutting-down-cortana-on-multiple-devices-including-ios-and-android\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft is shutting down Cortana on multiple devices, including iOS and Android. - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge Microsoft is rethinking its Cortana assistant, announcing that&nbsp;it will shut downthe current iOS and Android apps, end Cortana support for the&nbsp;Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker, and remove the original Cortana functionality from the first-generation&nbsp;Surface Headphones&nbsp;starting in 2021. 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