Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character ...

Microsoft Office 97 came out in the fall of 1996, and nearly thirty years later one software enthusiast with an eye for ...

Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s virtual assistant in the late ’90s and early 2000s? One of its most famous lines – which would appear in a pop-up ...

A video animation shows a Copilot Appearance avatar called Mico, floating around an abstract environment during a presentation at Microsoft's Fall 2025 Copilot Sessions event on Wednesday, Oct. 22, ...