Microsoft has withdrawn support for using Cortana with Alexa: it was two months ago

Cortana's future is getting darker, much as Microsoft disguises it as a turn toward the enterprise market. A future that is more of a present with the latest move by Microsoft, which silently and almost without has disabled the integration of Cortana with Alexa

Until now and since 2018, both assistants could interact, so that for example it was possible to access Cortana from a device with Alexa as if it were one more skill. Cortana could be used to open Microsoft applications from the Amazon assistant but… does anyone use Cortana?

To the surprise of… no one?

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For a few hours, when trying to access Cortana through Alexa, those interested can find a message similar to this: Sorry, the Cortana skill is already not available."

Yes until now and since 2018 you could use an Amazon Echo device to access Cortana and perform some actions, now this option is impossible. This is what they have discovered in PCMag, where they state that support for Cortana in Alexa was removed two months ago

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Microsoft apparently communicated this change to customers through notifications in the utility until September 18, but apparently , there have been few who have seen this message. Either that or the number of Cortana users is really anecdotal."

To no one's surprise, of course, and it is that It is not something that can be dismissed as unforeseen Cortana's slow shift towards The company has been brewing for a long time. It was removed from iOS and Android, and from the Launcher app, as the wake command was disabled or as the Invoke, the speaker with Cortana, lost functions.

An assistant who has no place even in his country of origin, who saw how third-party support for Cortana skills was closed and how in Windows 11 already it is not installed by default, although it is available from the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft seems to remain focused on driving the use of Cortana towards enterprise software, whether via PC or mobile devices, especially thanks to the integration with Microsoft 365 and Outlook, leaving personal uses aside.

PCMag