{"id":96596,"date":"2018-01-18T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=96596"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:41:26","slug":"big-change-for-windows-10s-cortana-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/big-change-for-windows-10s-cortana-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Big change for Windows 10’s Cortana assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have Windows 10, you\u2019ll be familiar with Microsoft\u2019s AI digital assistant Cortana<\/strong>. Taken from Microsoft\u2019s first major gaming franchise Halo, Cortana is Microsoft\u2019s version Apple\u2019s Siri, Google\u2019s Assistant, <\/strong>and Amazon’s Alexa<\/strong>. Thanks to the Cortana character in the Halo series, however, Cortana is the only AI assistant to have a physical representation of her likeness<\/strong>. This isn\u2019t the case in Windows 10, where Cortana is represented as the search bar next to Start button<\/strong>. Reports are saying, however, that this might be about to change.<\/p>\n

A new report says that Microsoft plans to move Cortana from the search bar to the Action Center<\/strong>, which makes sense. Cortana is already taking care of a lot of the notifications that show up in the Action Center, so it could prove to be a more suitable homeland for the AI assistant. Microsoft is also developing a new chat-based user interface for Cortana<\/strong> that will be located in the Action Center.<\/p>\n

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This change will have two impacts on your Windows 10 experience. The first is that it will remove Cortana from Windows search<\/strong>. There was little to need for Microsoft to integrate an AI assistant into the Windows search function, and people haven\u2019t been crazy about it since they did. Microsoft knows that people don\u2019t like talking to their PCs, so the second big impact is that a new chat-based UI with text input should garner more interaction between Windows 10 users and Cortana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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According to Windows Central, the latest Redstone 4 Insider Preview features a change that puts Cortana\u2019s proactive content in the Action Center. This means that we could be seeing Cortana moving home when Redstone 5 hits towards the end of 2018<\/strong>. If it does, we\u2019ll have Windows search back, improved functionality for Cortana, and a tasty little Cortana logo in the Action Center.<\/p>\n

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Via: ubergizmo<\/a> and Windows Central<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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