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  • Cortana officially gets thrown under the bus

    Posted on February 28, 2020 at 16:40 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    An amazing Friday blog post from Cortana corporate VP Andrew Shuman:

    Today, Microsoft is announcing an updated Cortana experience in Windows 10 that will deliver more help from your assistant in Microsoft 365. This next step in Cortana’s evolution will bring enhanced, seamless personal productivity assistance as a free update to the latest version of Windows 10 coming this spring…

    We’re excited about how these updates to Cortana will help you stay on top of things, save time and do your best work. As we continue to innovate on Cortana in Microsoft 365, we plan to share further improvements in the coming months.

    Tero Alhonen had an accurate synopsis on Twitter:

    We’re excited about these updates to Cortana:
    * consumer skills including music, connected home and third-party skills will no longer be available
    * ending support for Cortana in older versions of Windows
    * turning off the Cortana services in the Microsoft Launcher on Android

    and we plan to share further improvements in the coming months.

    He then turned to the demise of certain MCSE certifications, posted yesterday by Alex Payne, the GM of Global Technical Learning at MS….

    We’re also excited to share that there will not be Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019 certifications and basically everything that has anything to do with on-prem will be wiped out

    (That’s Tero’s take, but it’s a fair representation of what’s happening.)

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