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Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is the most visible symbol of a larger strategic pivot: turn a reactive Q&A engine into a socially aware, voice-first assistant while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy infamous. The rollout bundles Mico with group sessions, a “Real Talk” mode that will push back rather than agree reflexively, long‑term memory with explicit controls, and browser agent capabilities — a set of features that lift Copilot from a single‑user chatbot to a persistent...

Microsoft’s new AI persona, Mico, arrives as a distinctly non‑threatening face for Copilot — a responsive, color‑shifting orb intended to make voice and conversational AI feel friendlier and more human without repeating the mistakes of the past. Background Microsoft unveiled Mico during its Copilot fall update, positioning the new avatar as the expressive visual companion for Copilot’s voice mode. The move marks a deliberate shift away from purely faceless interfaces and toward an animated...

Azure’s Storage Mover now supports direct cloud-to-cloud migrations from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage, delivering a fully managed, agentless path for moving large object stores into Azure with built-in orchestration, incremental sync, and observability—an offering that could reshape how organizations approach multicloud consolidation and large-scale data migrations. Background Cloud strategies continue to diverge: some organizations embrace multicloud for resilience and best-of-breed...

If you've ever pressed a screenshot shortcut in Windows and then wondered where the resulting image went, you're not alone — Windows offers multiple capture methods and each one treats the resulting image differently, sometimes copying only to the clipboard and other times writing a timestamped file straight to disk. The behavior depends on which shortcut or tool you used and how your system (or IT policy) is configured, but once you know the rules it's straightforward to find, change, and...

If you’ve ever taken a screenshot on Windows and then stared at your desktop wondering where that file went, you’re not alone — Windows provides several capture methods and each one can save images in a different place (or not save a file at all), depending on which shortcut or tool you use and how your system is configured. Overview Windows 10 and Windows 11 include multiple, overlapping ways to capture your screen: the legacy Print Screen (PrtScn) key, Alt + PrtScn, Windows + PrtScn, the...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has quietly shipped a targeted hotfix — version 0.95.1 — that addresses the most abrasive complaints since the 0.95 release, most notably the Light Switch behavior that was unintentionally flipping users’ themes, along with a clutch of stability and installer improvements that make the suite safer to run on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines. Background PowerToys is Microsoft’s community-driven toolkit for power users, bundling small but powerful utilities such as...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt in years to give artificial intelligence a friendly face — a deliberately abstract, non‑photoreal visual companion designed to make voice and group interactions feel less awkward while avoiding the intrusive mistakes that made Clippy a UX pariah. Early previews and company messaging frame Mico as an optional, role‑scoped UI layer for voice-first tutoring and small‑group facilitation that sits on top of the Copilot...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Fall Release is less a traditional feature dump and more a strategic repositioning: 12 headline capabilities that recast Copilot from a query tool into an AI companion built to remember, facilitate group work, act across apps, and — importantly — serve as a new surface for advertising and commerce across Microsoft’s ecosystem. Background / Overview Microsoft rolled out the Copilot Fall Release on October 23, 2025, positioning the update as a human‑centered shift...

Microsoft’s latest push to make the browser feel less like a passive tool and more like a thinking partner arrives in Edge as Copilot Mode, and at the center of that pitch is a feature called Journeys — a contextual memory layer that groups past browsing activity into task-focused projects so you can “pick up right where you left off.” The new mode is opt‑in, emphasizes explicit permission for using your browsing context, and is rolling out as a limited preview in the U.S. while Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face, a voice, and a suite of social features designed to make it act less like a search box and more like a teammate: the new avatar Mico, an optional real talk conversational mode, shared Copilot Groups for up to 32 people, richer memory and personalization, and deeper connectors to Outlook, OneDrive, Gmail, Drive and Calendar. Microsoft positions this package as the Copilot Fall Release — a deliberate pivot from single-user Q&A toward a persistent...

Microsoft has given Copilot a personality: an animated, customizable avatar called Mico joins a major Fall update that also adds long‑term memory, shared group sessions, new connectors, a Socratic “Learn Live” tutor, and deeper agent‑style capabilities in Microsoft Edge — a package that recasts Copilot from a text widget into a social, persistent assistant that can remember, act, and emote. Background Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot from a sidebar helper into a cross‑platform...

Microsoft’s description of an AI assistant (companion) captures the shift from task-focused helpers to emotionally aware, context‑rich digital partners — and nowhere is that transition clearer than in the evolution of Microsoft Copilot, which layers advanced language models, multimodal perception, long‑term memory, and personality to act less like a tool and more like a personalized companion for daily life and work. Background AI assistants began as rule‑based helpers and scripted macros...

Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release rewrites a familiar script: the assistant you used to summon for quick answers is now being taught to emote, remember, collaborate and — with permission — act on your behalf across Windows, Edge and mobile, led by a deliberately non‑human avatar called Mico and a slate of features aimed at group work, learning, health guidance and agentic web actions. Background / Overview Microsoft has been moving Copilot from a single chat widget toward a system‑level...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful face on Windows 11 AI: an animated avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s voice mode, changes color and shape to signal listening or thinking, and is explicitly designed as an optional, friendlier way to make voice-first interactions less awkward for non‑technical users. The announcement is as much about product psychology as it is about capability: Microsoft pairs Mico with major Copilot features — long‑term memory, shared...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: a customizable, animated avatar named Mico that appears in voice mode, remembers user preferences, joins group chats, and — in a cheeky nod to Microsoft’s past — can briefly morph into the classic paperclip when prodded enough, part of a broader Copilot Fall Release that stitches persona, persistence, and agentic browsing into a single consumer-facing update. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Copilot program has been evolving from a text-only helper into...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update stakes a clear claim: the assistant is no longer just a personal helper — it’s aiming to be a shared, persistent collaborator that can join group conversations, remember context over time, and act across browsers and cloud services to get things done. This Fall release folds a suite of consumer-facing features into a single product push — most notably Copilot Groups (shared chats for up to 32 participants), a visible long‑term Memory UI, cross‑service...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face — an animated, customizable avatar called Mico — and it arrives as part of a larger “Copilot Fall Release” that stitches together long‑term memory, shared group sessions, browser agent tools, and new conversational styles aimed at making AI feel less like a tool and more like a companion. Background / Overview Microsoft announced the Copilot Fall Release publicly in a detailed blog post and accompanying product rollouts, positioning this update as a major...

Microsoft’s warning that Azure Blob Storage is under active, escalating attack should be treated as more than a routine advisory — it’s a call to action for every cloud operator who depends on Blob for backups, AI training sets, analytics lakes, media hosting, or ephemeral developer workflows. The company’s Threat Intelligence team laid out a detailed, multi-stage attack chain on October 20 that shows threat actors are systematically exploiting predictable names, leaked credentials...

OpenAI’s claim that ChatGPT business subscriptions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have grown sixfold year‑on‑year is the kind of metric that both excites traders and forces corporate IT teams to re-evaluate their AI roadmaps: the company’s enterprise lead for the region described a Europe‑led surge in paid business subscriptions on October 23, 2025, a development that is already rippling through equity markets, cloud strategies and AI‑focused cryptocurrencies. Background / Overview...

The ASUS ProArt P16 arrives not as a timid Windows alternative but as a full‑blown portable studio — a machine that, in practical terms for many creators, finally challenges the MacBook Pro’s long‑held dominance in the mobile creative workstation space. The combination of a factory‑calibrated 4K ASUS Lumina Pro OLED touchscreen, high‑end Ryzen AI HX silicon, and the new RTX 50‑series mobile GPUs gives creators a compelling Windows‑native path for color‑accurate editing, GPU‑accelerated...