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Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a deliberate step toward being more personal — and more social — with a Fall Release that adds an animated avatar named Mico, a new “real talk” conversational style, and shared Copilot Groups that let multiple people work inside a single Copilot session. These changes, announced during Microsoft’s Copilot Sessions in late October 2025, reposition Copilot from a one-off Q&A tool to a persistent, multimodal assistant that listens, remembers (with user controls)...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful — and strategically cautious — face on its AI assistant: an animated avatar called Mico that Microsoft positions as an optional, non‑human visual companion for voice interactions while pairing it with long‑term memory, group chat features, and new agentic browser actions. Background / Overview Microsoft is shipping Mico as part of a broader Copilot Fall release that reframes Copilot from a one‑off Q&A tool into a persistent...

Microsoft has officially ended mainstream support for Windows 10, and millions of PCs now face a choice: upgrade to Windows 11, enroll in the time‑boxed consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, or run increasingly vulnerable systems without vendor OS patches. Background / Overview Windows 10 debuted in 2015 and received regular feature, quality, and security updates under Microsoft’s long-running servicing model. That lifecycle reached its planned endpoint when Microsoft stopped...

Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot — the in‑overlay AI assistant in the Xbox Game Bar — can capture screenshots, extract on‑screen text with OCR, and on at least some Windows PCs appears to have been configured so that the Copilot “Model training on text” option was enabled by default, creating a renewed privacy backlash and a narrow but serious question about what Microsoft is allowed to collect, when, and under what defaults. Background / Overview Microsoft rolled Gaming Copilot into the...

Microsoft has quietly turned a routine screenshot into a one‑click visual lookup by adding Bing Visual Search to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool, folding a Lens‑style “circle to search” capability into the OS’s native capture workflow. Background / Overview The Snipping Tool began life as a basic screenshot utility and has steadily evolved into a multifunction capture suite on Windows 11. Over the past two years Microsoft has layered in Text Extractor (OCR), QR code detection, basic screen...

Microsoft’s newest attempt to put a friendly face on AI arrived this week in the form of Mico, an animated, non‑human avatar built into Copilot’s voice experience — part of a broader Copilot Fall Release that also adds group sessions, a “Real Talk” mode, Learn Live tutoring flows, and expanded memory and agentic features. Background: from Clippy to Mico — a short lineage Microsoft’s experiments with persona-driven assistants are a familiar thread in consumer computing history: early efforts...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give the company’s virtual assistant a friendly, non‑human face while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale — but the move also widens the product’s technical and governance footprint in ways that demand careful scrutiny. Background / Overview Microsoft unveiled Mico as part of a broader Copilot fall refresh that bundles multiple feature changes: an animated, emoji‑like avatar for voice...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update turns Edge from a chatty sidebar into an agentic browser mode that can see across tabs, remember past sessions, and — with explicit permission — perform multi‑step tasks on your behalf, a feature set Microsoft is calling Copilot Mode and is rolling out today as a limited preview in the United States. Background The browser has quietly become the front line of the next phase of AI: not merely a window to the web, but the place an assistant can act, remember...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment tucked behind a corporate curtain — it has arrived in the mainstream of productivity software, and a wave of vendor-led training is racing to teach organizations how to use it safely and effectively. ONLC Training’s free 90‑minute session, “Unlocking M365 Copilot: The AI Advantage You’re Not Using—Yet,” scheduled for November 19, 2025, is one such effort that aims to convert latent access into practical, governed adoption for business users and...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a personality: a floating, expressive avatar called Mico, plus a suite of social, memory, and voice-first features that collectively reshape how Copilot will behave on Windows, in Edge, and on mobile. The Fall Release — unveiled during Microsoft’s Copilot Sessions in late October 2025 — bundles a visual companion, a “real talk” conversational style, long‑term memory and connectors to third‑party consumer services, collaborative group chats for up to 32 people, a...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update reframes the assistant as intentionally social, expressive, and human-centered — an AI companion that remembers, argues when necessary, and can collaborate with groups or act on behalf of users with explicit consent. This Fall release bundles a dozen headline features — the animated avatar Mico, shared Copilot Groups, long‑term Memory & Personalization, cross‑service Connectors, browser agent features in Edge (Actions and Journeys), and health‑grounded...

Microsoft's Copilot just got a face: Mico, an animated, voice‑first avatar that Microsoft unveiled as the centerpiece of its Copilot Fall Release, is designed to make conversations with AI feel warmer, more expressive, and more purposeful while arriving alongside major features such as long‑term memory, shared Copilot Groups, new connectors and in‑house MAI models. Background Microsoft has been steadily folding Copilot into Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365 and mobile apps for more than a year...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot updates push the assistant from a solo productivity helper into a shared, action-capable collaborator — adding group sessions, expanded automation, cross-account connectors, and one-click export to editable Office files in a Windows‑centred release that tightens the integration between conversation and deliverable. Background Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot from an embedded helper inside Office apps into a broader platform for agentic automation...

Lenovo reinforced its lead in the global PC market in the third quarter of 2025 as shipment volumes rebounded across the industry, with HP and Dell holding steady in the runner-up positions and ASUS posting the fastest quarter‑on‑quarter growth amid a Windows 10 end‑of‑support‑driven refresh cycle and rising chatter about “AI PCs.” Background / Overview The third quarter of 2025 marked a turning point for the PC industry: after several weak years of muted consumer demand, vendors reported...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot release marks one of the broadest consumer-facing pivots yet: the assistant is being reshaped from a one-to-one helper into a collaborative, memory-enabled companion with deeper integrations across Outlook, Google services, and Edge — and it now sports a visual persona called Mico. Background Microsoft has steadily folded advanced generative AI features into Windows, Office, and Edge over the last two years. The Copilot platform started as an in-app assistant and...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot, rolled into the Windows 11 Game Bar, promises fast, in‑game AI help—but early public beta users report that the feature’s screenshot-based context and default training settings raise meaningful privacy flags and can also measurably tax system resources, with the worst effects appearing on handhelds and lower‑end PCs. Background Gaming Copilot is Microsoft’s in‑overlay AI assistant for Windows gaming: an evolution of the Copilot brand designed to deliver voice and...

Sam Altman’s recent framing of the coming AGI moment — that it will “come, it will go whooshing by” and won’t feel like the cinematic singularity many expect — has reopened a high‑stakes debate about preparedness, governance, and what “adaptation” really looks like when a technology reshapes civilization at speed. The remark is less an exercise in complacency than a challenge: the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be sudden in technical terms, messy in societal...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is more than a nostalgic wink to Clippy — it’s a deliberate attempt to recast the company’s AI assistant as a sociable, voice-first companion that remembers, argues back, and joins group conversations across Windows and Edge, while Microsoft walks a tightrope between engagement and responsibility. Background For decades Microsoft has experimented with embodied digital assistants — from the earnest but intrusive paperclip known as Clippy to the...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Mode expansion and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas landed within days of each other, forcing a showdown that treats the web browser not as a passive renderer of pages but as the central surface for agentic AI that can remember, act, and — crucially — take on multi‑step work for users. The announcements (OpenAI’s Atlas on October 21, 2025, and Microsoft’s Copilot Mode updates on October 23, 2025) are more than product releases: they are competing visions for how people will...

The new era of Copilot has arrived as a platform, not just a feature, and it’s now reachable from nearly every surface where people work: a web hub, dedicated mobile and desktop apps, built‑in Windows affordances, Microsoft 365 in‑app panes, and browser integrations that keep the assistant at your fingertips no matter which device you use. This piece maps where Copilot is accessible, explains the different delivery models and license paths, identifies the management and privacy controls IT...