In June, Microsoft announced that it would end support for its Cortana voice assistant before the end of 2023. In August, it disabled support for the Cortana Windows 11 app. Today, the company revealed plans to remove support for Cortana in both Microsoft Teams rooms and Teams Display devices.

in fact, According to this blog post, the deprecation process for Cortana in these Microsoft Teams services already started on September 15. Over the next few weeks, Teams Rooms and Teams Display devices will “no longer support Cortana voice assistance, both push-to-speech and active word detection.” The blog added that those users “will no longer be able to activate Cortana with the push-to-talk button” nor will they be able to use the keyword “Cortana” on these services and devices soon.

Microsoft stated that Teams Rooms and Teams Display users will still have several ways to access features that used to be handled by Cortana:

Users who have used Cortana’s voice assistance to complete tasks such as joining, starting or ending a meeting, adding a name or number, and making a call can complete these tasks manually through the console or touchscreen interface. Rooms equipped with Certified for Teams smart speakers can continue to use the device for meeting audio and smart voice transcription.

The blog post added that Microsoft “will deliver exciting new AI features to help customers work faster and smarter” and that it is “dedicated to helping customers who have adopted Microsoft voice assistance technologies make a smooth transition.”

Details of these new AI features were not mentioned. However, we’ll likely see Teams Rooms and Teams Display devices gain access to AI features like Bing Chat and Windows Copilot with voice assistance options sometime in the very near future. We’ll find out more later this week at Microsoft’s September 21st press event.