Microsoft Agent: Animated Character Who Becomes a PC User's Assistant

Microsoft Agent is a technology developed by Microsoft by employing characters animation to help users.

These animated characters were first introduced for Windows 2000 and was last used on Windows Vista.

Who were the agent characters that were often used at that time? Come on, get to know them in the article below!

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Microsoft Agent: Animated Character Who Becomes an Assistant for PC Users

If you are a Windows XP user or have ever owned a tube PC, then it is very possible that the Microsoft Agent feature is already on your device. Here are 7 frequently used agents:

Peedy

Peedy is a Microsoft Agent character created by Microsoft along with Merlin, Robby, and Genie.

He is a parrot with green feathers who likes to eat biscuits and listen to music using headphones.

Genie

Genie has an appearance similar to one of the characters from the famous story Aladdin. Yes, he has visuals like the genie in the animation.

This Microsoft Agent character is described as a powerful creature who lives in a magic lamp and can grant three wishes.

Robby

The next Microsoft agent is Robby, a silver robot who can disassemble his head when he finishes repairing his body.

His job is the same as the other characters on this list and Robby is also often used for TTS (Text to Speech) purposes in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Victor

Victor is an agent character created by La Cantoche Productions and published by Hewlett-Packard, also known as HP.

This character was created as a replacement for the default character in the Windows ME and XP setup, namely Qmark. Victor is also used as an HP Tour Guide.

Victor has two types of appearance, one as a human with silver hair and mustache and the other as a trophy.

Rover

Rover is a Microsoft Agent released in 2001 as the default search assistant on Windows XP devices.

He was a dog with yellow fur and a red collar around his neck, looking like a labrador-retriever crossbreed.

Users can tell Rover to search for a file by typing it in the File Explorer search field.

Clippy

The last most frequently used character is Clippy. It was created by Microsoft for Microsoft Office 97 and 2003.

As a Microsoft Agent for Microsoft Office, Clippy can help many users with various needs such as writing document text in Microsoft Word and creating presentations in PowerPoint.

Unfortunately, this animated character has received a lot of complaints from users who find it a bit annoying.

This is because Clippy often asks certain questions. For example, when a user wants to write "Dear" a name is added.

Clippy will create a prompt that says “I think you want to write a letter. Do you need help?”.

All of the characters for Microsoft's assistant were then finally deprecated in Microsoft Office 2007.

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