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A decades‑old secret tucked into Microsoft Office 97 has resurfaced: enter a handful of specific steps in Word 97 and the long‑dormant Clippit (Clippy) will pop up with a developer credits screen — a find that underlines both the playful culture of 1990s software teams and why the paperclip...

Microsoft’s Copilot has a new speaking voice — and a face to go with it: Mico, an optional animated companion that arrives as part of Copilot’s broader consumer push and is now rolling into the United Kingdom and Canada. The move represents a deliberate shift from a purely text-first assistant...

WhatsApp’s long-awaited wrist presence, OpenAI’s new agentic security researcher and Microsoft’s latest Copilot personality together mark a notable week in AI and mobile messaging — a trio of releases that push convenience, automation and agentic thinking forward while reopening familiar...

Microsoft has finally put Clippy out to pasture — not with a quiet farewell, but with a theatrical handoff: the paperclip’s spirit lives on only as a wink inside Mico, a new animated avatar that now fronts Microsoft Copilot’s voice experience as part of the Copilot Fall Release announced in late...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face — and a personality — with the introduction of Mico, a shape-shifting avatar designed to make voice interactions feel more expressive, empathetic, and, intentionally or not, a little nostalgic. Announced by Microsoft as part of a broad Copilot update on...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrived this week as a deliberate attempt to give Windows a friendly, animated face for voice-first AI — a small, color-shifting blob meant to signal listening, thinking and emotion while avoiding the intrusive mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale...

Microsoft has reintroduced a face for its virtual assistant — but this time it’s a smiling, color-shifting blob named Mico rather than an officious paperclip — and the move crystallizes a major crossroads for AI on Windows: how to give helpfulness a personality without repeating the mistakes of...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: an animated, deliberately non‑human avatar named Mico arrives as the most visible element of a broad Copilot Fall Release that stitches personality, long‑term memory, group collaboration and agentic web actions into a single consumer push — and Microsoft is...

Microsoft has given Copilot a visible personality: an animated, intentionally non‑human avatar called Mico, rolled out as the centerpiece of a broader Copilot Fall release that combines voice‑first presence, long‑term memory, shared group sessions and new tutoring flows — a strategic move that...

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 new animated AI face, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give Copilot a friendly, expressive presence while avoiding the missteps that made Clippy a cautionary lesson in user annoyance and over-eager assistance. Background Clippy’s reputation as an annoying, intrusive assistant...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a personality: a colorful, blob‑shaped avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s Voice Mode and is rolling out to Windows 11 devices — including a growing list of Samsung Galaxy Book models — as part of Microsoft’s Fall Copilot updates that add voice, vision...

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...

Microsoft’s avatar experiment has a face — and a wink — in the new Copilot Fall Release: a bouncy, color-shifting avatar called Mico that aims to make voice interactions with Microsoft Copilot feel warmer, more human, and easier to trust, while arriving with a suite of capability upgrades...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar arrives with a smile — and the paperclip hasn’t entirely left the building. Background / Overview 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 update introduces Mico — a warm, blob-shaped avatar that brings a deliberately friendly, expressive face to the company’s conversational AI — and with it a suite of features that push Microsoft’s Copilot from a text-first assistant toward a multi-modal, socially aware...

Microsoft’s decision to give Copilot a visible, animated persona — a small, color‑shifting avatar called Mico — marks a deliberate attempt to make voice and multimodal AI interactions feel less abstract and more naturally social, while bundling that personality with meaningful product features...

Microsoft’s Copilot has been given a face — a deliberately nonhuman, animated mascot called Mico — as part of a broad Fall update that stitches voice, memory, collaboration and browser agenting into a single consumer-facing vision for an always-present assistant on Windows and in Edge. The...

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...