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While they're at it, why don't they include Windows 10 on that list?

I haven't met a single person that uses Cortana and those who tried are usually not coming back. For me Cortana has basically no useful features (maybe its because of my language settings), its just software bloat and in addition to that, its a privacy nightmare. The only association I have with Cortana is it screaming at me when I do a clean install of Windows 10, which is a thing of the past thanks to my switch to macOS.

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A favorite pastime of mine was lining up all the new hire computers that had to be setup and seeing if I could mute it before the entire office turned around and told me to shut Cortana up.

HI THERE I’M CORTANA AND I’M HERE TO HELP

Worst part is it keeps running in the background hogging memory and cpu even when completely disabled. I've tried gpedit, shutup10 and so many other tools to get rid of it but somehow it comes back every time :/

The start menu, that need to index your files in background, or do other stuff, is named "cortana".

I don't think you want to disable this "cortana".

Serious question for better programmers than me: Doesn’t it violate seperation of concerns that something like the start menu that has a specific function and has been around for decades get smashed into the Cortana code and renamed. Cortana is clearly not core to the functionality of the start menu and if it became so it surely wasn’t out of necessity right?

It reminds me of when Microsoft was dead set on conflating the file manager “explorer” and Internet Explorer.

Can someone justify this?

It's like monolith and micro services.

From the programming standpoint, a monolith can be splitted in components, but compiled/bundled/linked to a single executable. This doesn't violate the seperation of concern. It's bad taste/marketing/whatever.

I checked on my Windows and they did separate Cortana and the Search/Start menu recently.

Oh thanks I didn't know that. I thought it was the annoying assistant.

If your windows is up to date, there is no cortana anymore.

(Well, it gone on my PC and I did nothing in particular). It was the annoying assistant, and the start menu.

Cortana is now a standalone app that can be uninstalled and updated separately from Microsoft Store.

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