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Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split

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Microsoft introduces the Schrödinger Linux Subsystem. (It might work. It might not.)
Hot on the heels of a patch for the version of Windows 10 that Microsoft hopes will undo the woes of 2018 comes a fresh insider build to break stuff just a few days before the company’s bug bash.
Build 18317 brings with it more hints as to the eventual fate of Microsoft’s unloved assistant, Cortana. Avoiding the “C” word has been tricky, with the thing being invoked at the slightest provocation.
But no more. As the Insider Team delicately puts it, Microsoft is “decoupling Search and Cortana” in the taskbar, allowing “each experience to innovate independently”.
The move is interesting, both removing the shackles of Cortana from desktop search and hinting at the possibility of consumers being able to pick and choose their assistant while Cortana’s technology continues to find a more comfortable home in Microsoft’s productivity line.

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