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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 Copilot name now labels more than one product, but the practical difference is simple: one Copilot is a generalist, cross‑platform assistant built to work across Windows and Microsoft 365, while the Copilot that lives inside Microsoft Edge is a specialist, context‑aware browser agent...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a high‑stakes Federal Court action accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers by folding its Copilot AI into those consumer plans, raising renewal prices, and burying a lower‑cost “Classic”...

Australia’s competition regulator has taken Microsoft to the Federal Court, accusing the company of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers by bundling its Copilot generative‑AI assistant into consumer Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans, raising renewal prices...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a legal attack on Microsoft, alleging that the company misled some 2.7 million Australian Microsoft 365 subscribers about their renewal choices after bundling the Copilot AI assistant into consumer plans and raising prices. The Australian...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched Federal Court proceedings accusing Microsoft Australia and its U.S. parent of misleading roughly 2.7 million Microsoft 365 subscribers by bundling its Copilot generative-AI assistant into consumer Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans, raising...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a Federal Court action accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian consumers after the company bundled its Copilot generative‑AI features into Microsoft 365 and raised subscription prices — and the case now tests where...

Microsoft’s consumer-facing Copilot rollout has landed the company in federal court in Australia after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) accused Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million subscribers by bundling Copilot into Microsoft 365 personal and family plans while...

Microsoft’s decision to give Copilot a face — a small, animated avatar called Mico — is more than a nostalgic wink at Clippy; it’s the visible centerpiece of a sweeping Copilot Fall Release that bundles personality, long‑term memory, group collaboration, and agentic browser actions into a single...

Symal’s move to bake Microsoft Azure into the spine of its IT operations marks a decisive shift from a shoestring, on-premises approach to a cloud-first DevOps and AI‑driven strategy — one designed to scale the business after a $437 million ASX listing and a rapid headcount expansion. The...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is an intentionally playful, blob‑shaped face that Microsoft hopes will do what Clippy never could: make talking to your PC feel natural, useful and — crucially — safe. Background Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Copilot assistant that...

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...

Ed Reed’s film-room dive into Josh Allen’s highlights — presented with Microsoft Copilot technology — is the kind of short-form content that looks simple on the surface but reveals a lot about how AI is changing sports media, fan consumption, and the privacy calculus for Windows users...

Microsoft’s new animated avatar Mico is the most visible symbol of a deliberate — and risky — design shift: give Copilot a friendly, non‑human face that makes voice conversations feel natural, while pairing that personality with stronger controls for memory, group collaboration, and “real talk.”...

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman drew a bright ethical boundary this week: Copilot will not provide simulated erotica or other pornographic experiences — a deliberate policy choice that puts Microsoft at odds with some high-profile AI players and forces the industry to confront the...

Microsoft’s AI assistant just got a face — and a wink to its most infamous predecessor — as the Copilot Fall Release rolls out an animated, non‑human avatar called Mico, while bundling a suite of memory, collaboration, and agentic features that together recast Copilot from a one‑off helper into...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as a deliberately friendly, animated face for voice interactions — and while Microsoft frames it as a human‑centered convenience, the change materially raises the stakes for privacy, governance, and the psychological risks of parasocial relationships...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give the company’s virtual assistant a friendly, non‑human face while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale — but the move also widens the product’s technical and governance footprint in ways that...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful face on Windows 11 AI: an animated avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s voice mode, changes color and shape to signal listening or thinking, and is explicitly designed as an optional, friendlier way to make voice-first...

Microsoft’s description of an AI assistant (companion) captures the shift from task-focused helpers to emotionally aware, context‑rich digital partners — and nowhere is that transition clearer than in the evolution of Microsoft Copilot, which layers advanced language models, multimodal...