The latest in Windows 10 hides a surprise: Microsoft has disabled the Cortana activation command

The future of Cortana seems more uncertain than ever right now, at least if we think of Cortana as a competing assistant to use in equal conditions with Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa. Today that is impossible, we already know it just like they know it at Microsoft, where they thought it best to turn to the business world.

That's why news like this draws attention. That Microsoft has temporarily disabled the activation of Cortana using the voice command that invoked the assistant by name: Microsoft disables the Cortana activation command.

Cortana activation command is aborted

Striking, because regardless of the turn to the enterprise environment, we recently saw improvements to Cortana that was preparing to offer support in new lenguages. A list that had Italian, German, British English, Japanese, Spanish from Spain and Spanish from Mexico.

That's why the temporary disabling of the wake word, “Hey Cortana,” gets a lot of attention. It is something that is reflected in the latest beta of the Windows 10 update. It is a temporary deactivation, they warn you, so it is expected that this function will be recovered in the future, but what is the reason?

You have to remember that Alexa is already usable from Windows 10, something that many of us saw as having the enemy at home, a rival that is also much more powerful and usable . And in the meantime, Microsoft goes and mutes the activation of its assistant.

Something striking if we take into account that it has been rumored how Microsoft could be working on a new assistant that would come with Windows 10X, a system that we saw yesterday as it was going to focus from the start on computers with a single screen. Another bad symptom for Cortana if it ever comes true.

We already knew that Cortana will lose some of its more consumer-oriented features, which, for example, had led to user complaints from the Invoke speaker, from Harman kardon or how Cortana was removed from the Launcher application on Android. Now comes this one more step.

The truth is that we will have to see what happens with Cortana, an assistant that has never quite taken off and that little by little has seen its presence cornered within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Via | HTNovo