Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, represents a deliberate shift from faceless assistants to a voice-first, personality-driven companion that combines expressive animation, long-term memory, collaborative sessions and a tutor-style “Learn Live” mode—an update Microsoft packaged in its Copilot...
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...
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.
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Microsoft introduced Mico at its Fall Copilot Sessions event...
Microsoft’s Copilot just moved from a helpful sidebar to a full-fledged, personality-driven productivity layer across Windows, Edge and mobile — and the Fall Release is the most aggressive push yet to make that transition real for everyday users and IT teams.
Background / Overview
Microsoft’s...
Microsoft is quietly testing a small but notable convenience feature in Windows 11: a one‑click internet speed test shortcut embedded directly in the network flyout and taskbar context menu — a shortcut that, for now, simply launches Bing’s online speed‑test widget rather than running a native...
Microsoft is quietly preparing a broader rollout of Copilot Appearance — an animated, voice-enabled avatar for Copilot — while testing UI shifts and expanded memory controls that bring Microsoft’s assistant closer to the interaction patterns already familiar from ChatGPT, Gemini and other modern...
Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...
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Microsoft Edge sits at the center of a heated debate among Windows 11 users — lauded for technical excellence and roundly criticized for its role in shaping, and at times subverting, user choice. The browser epitomizes Microsoft’s willingness to intertwine its ecosystem ever deeper into the...
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Native Windows Copilot: Sleek UI, Voice Control, and Edge AI Ads
Microsoft’s AI journey on Windows takes a giant leap forward with a refreshed, native version of Copilot—complete with a modern design, voice control, and seamless integration into the Windows 11 ecosystem. This upgrade marks a...