Microsoft’s Copilot has a new face: a deliberately cute, animated avatar called Mico that aims to make voice interactions warmer and more conversational — and, in a wink to Microsoft’s past, can briefly transform into the infamous paperclip known as Clippy as a preview Easter egg.
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Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar arrives with a smile — and the paperclip hasn’t entirely left the building.
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Microsoft unveiled a major Copilot refresh in late October that recasts the assistant as a human‑centered, voice‑first companion named Mico. The rollout bundles an...
Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrived as the most visible symbol of a broader Copilot fall release that pairs a playful, non‑photoreal “face” with serious changes to memory, collaboration, and browser agent capabilities—an intentional nod to Clippy’s legacy that also forces a long...
Microsoft’s Copilot now has a face: an animated, voice-first avatar called Mico that responds with real-time expressions, backed by new long‑term memory, shared “Copilot Groups,” and a host of agentic browsing features that together mark the most consumer-visible reinvention of Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release tightens the company’s bet that AI should free people to focus on what matters by becoming more social, more persistent, and — for the first time in a sustained consumer rollout — visually expressive through an optional avatar named Mico.
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Microsoft’s Copilot has a new face — and, if you’re feeling nostalgic, a hidden paperclip wink — as the company rolls out Mico, an expressive voice-mode avatar that can be nudged into a modernized Clippy and arrives alongside a suite of collaborative, health-grounded, and personality-driven...
Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release introduces Mico, an optional animated avatar and voice companion that gives Windows 11’s Copilot a visible — and intentionally nostalgic — face, while the release also adds shared group chats, long-term memory, new voice and vision models, and a suite of features...
Zorin OS 18’s public beta and rapid follow‑on release stake a clear claim: make leaving Windows 10 painless, keep existing hardware useful, and give Microsoft 365 users a familiar desktop bridge — all timed to the calendar that made migration a practical problem in the first place.
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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...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...
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Microsoft’s Copilot has stopped being just a one-on-one productivity sidekick and taken a major step toward becoming a shared workplace companion that participates in real time with groups of people — and with clear implications for how teams brainstorm, co-write, plan and learn together. The...
Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: an animated, intentionally non‑human avatar called Mico, rolled into a broad Fall refresh that pairs personality with practical features — group chats, long‑term memory controls, a “Real Talk” disagreement mode, Learn Live tutoring, and agentic browser...
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Microsoft’s latest Copilot Fall Update recasts the assistant as a deliberately social, more expressive, and action-capable companion — led by a new animated avatar called Mico, long‑term Memory & Personalization, multi‑user Copilot Groups, deeper browser agent features in Edge, and a set of...
Microsoft’s latest Copilot update marks one of the clearest pivots yet: the company is moving its assistant from a solo productivity tool into a permissioned, social, and action-capable companion that can join group chats, reach into Google and Outlook accounts, remember personal details, and —...
Microsoft’s Copilot is taking a deliberate step away from being a neutral utility and toward becoming a more conversational, social, and personality-driven assistant with today’s update: group chats that bring multiple people into a single Copilot session, a selectable “real talk” mode that adds...
Microsoft's Copilot has been reshaped into a far more social, expressive, and agentic assistant today, with a cluster of updates — from collaborative group chats and an expressive avatar called Mico to a new "Real Talk" personality, smarter memory, and browser-driven "Journeys" — that together...
Microsoft has pushed a substantial update to Copilot that turns the assistant from a solo helper into a more collaborative, expressive, and deeply integrated part of the browsing and productivity experience — adding shared “Groups” for up to 32 people, the ability (with permission) to reason...