Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures?
How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I've used Cyanogen a little before on certain Android devices that had tons of built in bloat and themes to slim it down a bit. I definitely wouldn't want to swap one type of bloat for another.
Time to use a different slim rom from XDA I guess?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.
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Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures?
How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I've used Cyanogen a little before on certain Android devices that had tons of built in bloat and themes to slim it down a bit. I definitely wouldn't want to swap one type of bloat for another.
Time to use a different slim rom from XDA I guess?
IIRC this only affects Cyanogen OS and not CyanogenMod.
http://www.androidcentral.com/difference-between-cyanogen-os...
So, you should be able to avoid Cortana by using CyanogenMod instead.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.