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AFFiNE arrives as a quietly ambitious open‑source alternative to the usual productivity stack — a local‑first, block‑based workspace that merges documents, whiteboards, databases and an AI copilot into a single edgeless canvas, with self‑hosting and cross‑platform clients that make it a...

Microsoft 365 and Google Docs are no longer just “word processors plus spreadsheets” — they’re full productivity ecosystems that now hinge as much on AI, security, and platform integration as on the basics of typing and formulas. The debate that once split users into neat camps — cloud-first...

Microsoft this month pushed a wide slate of AI-first updates to Teams — from turning one-to-one Copilot chats into collaborative team conversations to giving Channel Agents access to third‑party work systems — signalling a clear shift from assistance to integrated, action-oriented automation...

Microsoft’s Copilot has finally been moved out of the “nice demo” category and into something you can reasonably consider using day‑to‑day — a human‑centered assistant with memory, shared sessions, proactive help, a friendly avatar, and tighter browser and OS automation that together change the...

Microsoft Teams is becoming the connective tissue that links design studios, assembly lines, dealer showrooms, and service bays—turning what used to be siloed activities into a single, actionable workspace where people, telemetry, and AI agents move together in real time. The promise is...

Microsoft’s low-friction “email-to-chat” change for Teams — which lets any user start a conversation with any email address and automatically provisions the recipient as a guest in the sender’s tenant — landed as a convenience feature but has immediately rippled through IT operations, security...

Microsoft’s Teams ecosystem took another big step toward becoming the default hub for hybrid work this month, with a packed update wave that spans Teams Rooms hardware management, a multi‑model Copilot strategy, a high‑profile NHS Copilot trial, fresh security takedowns, and practical automation...

Microsoft’s Copilot now has a face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico that Microsoft unveiled as part of its Copilot Fall updates, a package that pairs visual personality with long‑term memory, group collaboration, a new “Real Talk” conversational mode, and voice‑first...

Microsoft’s Q1 2026 earnings call did more than report strong numbers — it laid out a practical, product-level vision for how AI will become the connective tissue of customer experience (CX), putting Copilot and multi‑agent orchestration at the center of service, security, and collaboration...

Microsoft’s Copilot now has a face — a deliberately non‑human one — as the company rolls out Mico, an animated, color‑shifting avatar that appears in Copilot’s voice mode and is designed to make spoken interactions feel more natural, empathetic, and contextually aware. Mico is the most visible...

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’s latest Copilot Fall Update stitches personality, persistence, and group collaboration into a single consumer-facing push that aims to turn the assistant from a one-off utility into a shared, context-aware companion across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft’s Copilot apps. Background /...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update is a deliberate pivot: the company has bundled a dozen consumer‑facing features under a “human‑centred AI” banner that adds personality, long‑term memory, group collaboration, browser‑level agency and domain‑grounding to Copilot across Windows, Edge and mobile —...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update is a clear attempt to turn a disembodied assistant into a companion — one with a face, memory, social features and deeper connections to the apps and accounts you rely on every day. The centerpiece is Mico, an optional animated avatar that brings a visual...

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’s latest Copilot update dresses its AI in a friendlier face, brings multiplayer collaboration, tighter app integrations, and a suite of productivity-first features that collectively push Copilot from a one-to-one chatbot toward a contextual, persistent assistant that lives across your...

Microsoft’s fresh attempt to give Copilot a face arrives as a carefully engineered echo of a notorious past: the animated avatar Mico is designed to be warm, visible and scoped — a friendly companion for voice interactions, study sessions and group chats, rather than a resurrected, intrusive...

Microsoft’s newest Copilot update pulls several threads of its AI strategy into a single, bold consumer-facing package: a candid conversational style called Real Talk, an optional animated avatar named Mico, multi-person Copilot Groups, voice-first tutoring called Learn Live, health-focused...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot “Fall Release” folds personality, memory, group collaboration, and safer domain guidance into a single consumer-facing push — and its centerpiece is a deliberately playful, voice-first avatar called Mico, a non‑photoreal animated companion that channels Clippy...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico (pronounced MEE’koh) that Microsoft introduced as part of a broader Copilot Fall Release — a package of voice, memory, collaboration and safety features designed to make AI assistance feel more social...