How about you let me strip it completely out of Windows 10 instead of just turni...

KirinDave · on Dec 9, 2015

You can disable all its callback features. All that's left is the interface to windows search. 9)% of what Cortana is is just a new cross-entity search framework for your stuff. But you can turn it all off by unpairing it (or just using an local Win10 Account).

Or you can keep squatting on Windows 7 until it EOLs and use a desktop OS that manages to be even more dated than Mac OS X.

fweespeech · on Dec 9, 2015

> You can disable all its callback features.

The fact I have to write a host file to do that makes it rather irritating but, yes, with a local account and the appropriate host file and all the features turned off it sorta-works.

The concern is Windows Update will turn it back on as it has with other things in the past.

KirinDave · on Dec 10, 2015

Which OS do you use? OSX does the as-you-type requests too. Last time I looked wasn't Ubuntu doing it as well?

fweespeech · on Dec 11, 2015

I primarily use Debian, I use Windows for gaming.

And Ubuntu actually lets you shut it off relatively easily fyi.

KirinDave · on Dec 11, 2015

If only Ubuntu could make it easier to run package updates 6 months continuously.

wrenky · on Dec 9, 2015

Do you mean get all the features in windows 10 ported to iOS and android?

Cortana integrates pretty deeply into the OS for that to happen.. Apple/Google would have to allow it and THATS not happening :)

vetinari · on Dec 9, 2015

No, he means having Windows 10 without Cortana.

Regarding integration - what is integrating so deeply, that it needs special handling? Google Now runs entirely with public API.