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Hands On with New Visual Studio Copilot 'Planning' Feature (Preview)

The feature extends GitHub Copilot's Agent Mode to handle larger, multi-step coding tasks with structured reasoning, ...

Microsoft’s Mico is a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era

Microsoft has unveiled “Mico,” a new animated avatar for its Copilot AI that brings back shades of Clippy. The expressive ...
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Win 11 Update Borks .NET MAUI Projects Built on .NET 8: 'Microsoft, What Have You Done?'

The issue was complicated by inability to update Xcode, but Microsoft external support staff had the step-by-step solution, ...

Mico is Microsoft's Clippy for the AI age

Microsoft sees Mico as an answer to what an "AI companion" looks like. The "optional visual presence" aims to listen and ...

Meet the new Clippy: Microsoft unveils Copilot's "Mico" avatar

Today, Microsoft introduced Mico, a new and more personal avatar for the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant, which the ...

Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy

Mico is all part of a goal to give Copilot an identity, as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman alluded to earlier this year.

Microsoft revives Clippy with Copilot's "Mico"

Microsoft has released major updates to its Copilot digital assistant that include the introduction of Mico, an animated avatar that gives the AI a human touch ...