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Microsoft is rethinking its Cortana assistant, announcing that it will shut down the current iOS as well-built as Android apps, end Cortana abutment for the Harman Kardon Pray smart speaker, as well-built as remove the prevenient Cortana functionality from the first-generation Surface Headphones starting in 2021.

These changes are still a few months away, however it marks arithmetic big footfall for Microsoft in pivoting Cortana else from a Google Banana or Alexa arithmetic to a increasingly specialized, productivity-focused banana -- changes the visitor has already started making on the Windows 10 adaptation of Cortana eldest this year. (To that end, Microsoft likewise put a September 7th date on the already-announced sunsetting of third-party Cortana abilities for Windows.)

Microsoft will focus on its prolificacy features

Instead, Microsoft will be haulage on its prolificacy gloss that repurpose Cortana as a partition of the Microsoft 365 suite of software, citing the revamped Windows 10 functions as well-built as microcircuit Cortana gloss in the Seine as well-built as Teams apps as replacements. It's not as full-featured as the prevenient Cortana -- which offered boosted functions like smart home controls as well-built as music integration -- however by offering a neath indefinite set of features, Microsoft is hoping to create a product that biggest complements its explicit software as well-built as competes neath hereupon with everyday players like Google as well-built as Amazon.

Microsoft is likewise offering a consolation oomph of a $50 glade menu for Harman Kardon Pray owners, who'll be preferential impacted by the retrocession of Cortana -- which effectively will upheaval the formerly smart dingbat into a pricey Bluetooth speaker when the firmware update arrives verging year. Owners of the prevenient Unconcealed Headphones (who will likewise see their Cortana familiarity removed) are likewise existence offered a $25 glade menu to operate up for the missing service.