If you need to say goodbye to Cortana one final time inside Windows 11, don’t replace the app.

Microsoft started deprecating the Cortana app throughout the Windows Insider program simply a short while in the past — that’s programmer-speak for “getting rid of,” identical to “layoff” or “workforce reduction” is HR-speak for a similar factor. You can nonetheless open the Cortana app on Windows 11, however watch out.

On the highest of the app you might discover that Cortana has an replace accessible. If you ignore the replace (for now), Cortana ought to proceed to work as she’s alleged to in the intervening time. But when you apply the replace, you’ll basically kill Cortana.

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After making use of the replace, you possibly can reopen the Cortana app. But when you accomplish that, you’ll see a message about how Cortana is now deprecated. At this level, you might as nicely uninstall the app itself, as Cortana is now successfully lifeless. That’s an enormous bummer for a Friday, isn’t it?

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Cortana had character. She had a voice. She was the face of Windows for years, even when she was finally reworked into one thing of a monster within the Halo video games themselves. Now, Microsoft has changed Cortana with Bing Chat and Windows Copilot, which is now kind of a soulless company bot, there that will help you and never way more. Rest in peace, Cortana.