Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.
I miss the days of windows 8 and Cortana. Sure, she wasn’t perfect, but Jesus was it better than Copilot!!!
My Windows phone back in the day would link to my Pioneer aftermarket radio in my car and Cortana did text to speech for my incoming texts, and could do speech to text for replies. All through voice commands and hands free. My friends were blown away in 2012-2013.
I’d keep an eye out. They also “backed off” including AI in Notepad and “other places it didn’t make sense.”
Turns out that just meant removing the Copilot branding and calling the AI features “Writing Tools.”
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/26/microsoft-drops-copilot-branding-in-notepad-for-windows-11-for-everyone-but-its-really-just-a-rename/
I miss the days of windows 8 and Cortana. Sure, she wasn’t perfect, but Jesus was it better than Copilot!!!
My Windows phone back in the day would link to my Pioneer aftermarket radio in my car and Cortana did text to speech for my incoming texts, and could do speech to text for replies. All through voice commands and hands free. My friends were blown away in 2012-2013.