Hands On Microsoft’s Clippy was an anthropomorphic assistant ahead of his time, offering to help you with your Office 97 tasks when all you could do was type and click in response. Today, as part of a massive Copilot Fall Release, Redmond is bringing Clippy back – at least as an avatar for its new AI helper named “Mico”.

Mico (short for Microsoft) is the new face of Copilot. Redmond promises it will appear when you use voice commands to invoke the assistant. It’s rolling out to users on Thursday and you can get it by clicking the microphone icon on the web version of Copilot ( copilot.microsoft.com ). However, at the time of publication, it was not appearing in the Copilot for Windows app for this writer.

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