Microsoft has announced that it will end Cortana voice assistant support for Android, iOS, and a few other platforms in early 2021. It also said that the support for Cortana service integration in the Harman Kardon Invoke speaker will be dropped in January 2021.
Microsoft Cortana voice assistant support for Android, iOS, and a few other platforms will end in early 2021, the company has announced. It also said that the support for Cortana service integration in the Harman Kardon Invoke speaker will be dropped in January 2021. In the run-up to these changes, the company will first end support for all third-party Cortana skills on September 7, which is just over a month away. These changes are a result of lower usage of the virtual assistant. According to the announcement on a Microsoft Support page, spotted by Android Police, the company is making a shift towards a “transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365”, and hence it needs to adjust its focus areas of innovation and development to give maximum assistance to users “where they need it most.
