{
  "type": "obituary",
  "publisher": "Rest In Print",
  "hall": "technology",
  "slug": "cortana",
  "subject": {
    "name": "Cortana (Windows app)",
    "maker": "Microsoft"
  },
  "born": "2014",
  "died": "2023-08",
  "cause_of_death": "deprecated",
  "cause_description": "a deprecation notice it had been ignoring since spring",
  "notice": [
    "Cortana stopped being supported as a standalone Windows app in August 2023. It was nine.",
    "It was named after a character in a video game and then asked to schedule meetings.",
    "It was replaced by Copilot, which can do more and is asked to do it far more often.",
    "It lingers in a few corners of Outlook and Teams, where nobody has told it."
  ],
  "in_lieu_of_flowers": "In lieu of flowers, say its name once, to an empty room.",
  "sources": [
    "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-killing-cortana-on-windows-starting-late-2023",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)"
  ],
  "url": "https://restinprint.studio/hall/cortana"
}