{"id":1029325,"date":"2026-08-17T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029325"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:50:25","slug":"microsoft-is-killing-mico-the-copilot-mascot-it-launched-last-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/microsoft-is-killing-mico-the-copilot-mascot-it-launched-last-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is \u2018killing\u2019 Mico, the Copilot mascot it launched last October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is pulling Mico, the animated yellow blob that has fronted Copilot Voice since last October, out of the assistant&#8217;s voice mode. The character isn&#8217;t being deleted outright\u2014it&#8217;s being shifted to Learn Live, Microsoft&#8217;s voice-based study mode, where it will work as an animated tutor. Copilot Voice itself stays exactly where it is. You&#8217;ll still be able to talk to the chatbot and get spoken replies. You just won&#8217;t have a blob pulling faces at you while you do it.<\/p>\n<p>The change was spotted on a Microsoft support page and reported by The Verge, and it lands as part of a much bigger housekeeping exercise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is pulling Mico, the animated yellow blob that has fronted Copilot Voice since last October, out of the assistant&#8217;s voice mode. The character isn&#8217;t being deleted outright\u2014it&#8217;s being shifted to Learn Live, Microsoft&#8217;s voice-based study mode, where it will work as an animated tutor. Copilot Voice itself stays exactly where it is. You&#8217;ll still be able to talk to the chatbot and get spoken replies. You just won&#8217;t have a blob pulling faces at you while you do it. The change was spotted on a Microsoft support page and reported by The Verge, and it lands as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029326,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029325\/revisions\/1029326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}