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...
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...
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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...
Microsoft’s Copilot now has a face: an expressive, animated orb named Mico (pronounced like “pico”) that Microsoft unveiled as part of the Copilot Fall Release, an addition designed to give the assistant a warmer, more personal presence during voice interactions while leaning on new memory and...
Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico that arrived as the headline feature of Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release and is already changing how voice and tutoring interactions feel on Windows, Edge and mobile devices.
Background / Overview...
Microsoft has given Copilot a face: an optional, animated avatar called Mico that debuts in the Copilot Fall Release as part of a broader push to make Microsoft Copilot feel more human-centered, voice-first, and socially capable.
Background / Overview
Microsoft’s Copilot Fall Release packages a...
Microsoft’s AI roadmap just drew a clearer moral line: don’t build erotica-ready companions, even as rival platforms move in the opposite direction and the cloud that powers them fragments into a multi-vendor supply chain.
Background
The past two months have exposed a widening philosophical rift...
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 latest Copilot rollout gives the assistant a literal face — Mico, a small, animated, non‑human avatar that appears in voice interactions — and the move crystallizes a strategic shift: Copilot is being recast from a faceless query box into a persistent, multimodal companion that...
Microsoft's new animated avatar, Mico, arrives as the face of Copilot — a deliberately friendly, emoji-like companion that Microsoft says is designed to be useful without being obtrusive, a modern answer to the mixed legacy of Clippy and a direct test of whether personality can make AI...
Microsoft’s Copilot now has a face — an animated, blob‑like avatar named Mico — and with it Microsoft is making a deliberate bet that personality can make voice and tutoring interactions feel more natural without repeating the mistakes of the past. The new Mico avatar, introduced as part of...
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...
Microsoft has given Copilot a visible personality: an animated, customizable avatar named Mico that listens, emotes, and — if you poke it enough — briefly transforms into the legendary paperclip, Clippy.
Background / Overview
Microsoft introduced Mico at its Fall Copilot Sessions event...