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Clippy has returned as a Copilot Easter egg.

Mico is the new face of Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, debuting for users of its voice mode today. If you tap on Mico a bunch of times, an Easter egg appears where it turns into Clippy briefly. “Clippy walked so that we could run,” joked Jacob Andreou, corporate VP of product and growth at Microsoft AI, in an interview with The Verge.

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