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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.

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