The Microsoft Agent Characters Archival Project
Mar 30, 2024 1:50:48 GMT
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Post by capsking on Mar 30, 2024 1:50:48 GMT
Hi, Since 2019, I have been a fan of MS Agent, The software being notably known for the tool to make the infamous spyware program BonziBuddy work, if you do not know what ms agent is, here it is, Microsoft Agent is technology software developed and released in 1997 by Microsoft, Which consists of 3D or drawn animated characters, TTS Voice engines, and speech recognition. It was pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 2000 and through Vista. It was excluded in Microsoft Windows 7, And was discontinued in Microsoft Windows 8. The characters are stored in a file extension called "ACS". Microsoft made and provided 4 3D animated characters that were able to be downloaded from the Microsoft website for free, The characters were named Peedy, Robby, Merlin, And Genie. Some other characters were also shipped with Microsoft Office up to the version 2003 as the Office Assistants most notably including the iconic assistant Clippy and with Microsoft Windows XP as search assistants. New Agent characters can be created using The Agent Character Creator. During the early 2000s, the technology became so popular, Many companies such as IBM, La Cantoche, DesktopMates, E-Clips Animations And others created their own characters, IBM created 3 characters named Woodrow, Brocklee and Chip. La Cantoche, Which was a company from Paris, France, Created 5 characters, The 5 were named James, Claude the bear, Oscar the cat, Plany, and Milton The Bear. They also made other agent characters for clients.
Microsoft Agent is technology software developed and released in 1997 by Microsoft, Which consists of 3D or drawn animated characters, TTS Voice engines, and speech recognition. It was pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 2000 and through Vista. It was excluded in Microsoft Windows 7, And was discontinued in Microsoft Windows 8. The characters are stored in a file extension called "ACS". Microsoft made and provided 4 3D animated characters that were able to be downloaded from the Microsoft website for free, The characters were named Peedy, Robby, Merlin, And Genie. Some other characters were also shipped with Microsoft Office up to the version 2003 as the Office Assistants most notably including the iconic assistant Clippy and with Microsoft Windows XP as search assistants. New Agent characters can be created using The Agent Character Creator. During the early 2000s, the technology became so popular, Many companies such as IBM, La Cantoche, DesktopMates, E-Clips Animations And others created their own characters, IBM created 3 characters named Woodrow, Brocklee and Chip. La Cantoche, Which was a company from Paris, France, Created 5 characters, The 5 were named James, Claude the bear, Oscar the cat, Plany, and Milton The Bear. They also made other agent characters for other clients such as Warner Brothers, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and others. DesktopMates made characters most notably Jenni, They also made Pretty Characters, E-Clips Animations, An company from Australia, Made cartoon styled animated characters Most notably Rebecca and Wartnose. And others, aswell people, Websites like The Microsoft Agent Ring, The Agentry, And others also provided Agent characters for free download, Or paid download, In the mid 2000s, Microsoft Agent's popularity was growing, And soon, Some Microsoft Agent websites started disappearing, Some websites stopped working and some got their domains for sale, And some of them were still up, In 2009, When Microsoft Agent got discontinued, The Microsoft Agent Ring was shut down for good. Sometime later in 2016, A software website that goes by the name of "ERP Softwares" started providing 536 Agent characters, But however, The site suddenly disappeared in mid 2016,
and check out some of the ms agent hosting places for classic characters you may find, tmafe.com/
if you found a character please reply here or private message me. and tell me it's name, what company or person made it, what year when it was made, and also put a image. thank you. for people that have old obscure ms agent character acs files in their old computers, whatever they downloaded it or buyed it during the 2000s
Microsoft Agent is technology software developed and released in 1997 by Microsoft, Which consists of 3D or drawn animated characters, TTS Voice engines, and speech recognition. It was pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 2000 and through Vista. It was excluded in Microsoft Windows 7, And was discontinued in Microsoft Windows 8. The characters are stored in a file extension called "ACS". Microsoft made and provided 4 3D animated characters that were able to be downloaded from the Microsoft website for free, The characters were named Peedy, Robby, Merlin, And Genie. Some other characters were also shipped with Microsoft Office up to the version 2003 as the Office Assistants most notably including the iconic assistant Clippy and with Microsoft Windows XP as search assistants. New Agent characters can be created using The Agent Character Creator. During the early 2000s, the technology became so popular, Many companies such as IBM, La Cantoche, DesktopMates, E-Clips Animations And others created their own characters, IBM created 3 characters named Woodrow, Brocklee and Chip. La Cantoche, Which was a company from Paris, France, Created 5 characters, The 5 were named James, Claude the bear, Oscar the cat, Plany, and Milton The Bear. They also made other agent characters for other clients such as Warner Brothers, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and others. DesktopMates made characters most notably Jenni, They also made Pretty Characters, E-Clips Animations, An company from Australia, Made cartoon styled animated characters Most notably Rebecca and Wartnose. And others, aswell people, Websites like The Microsoft Agent Ring, The Agentry, And others also provided Agent characters for free download, Or paid download, In the mid 2000s, Microsoft Agent's popularity was growing, And soon, Some Microsoft Agent websites started disappearing, Some websites stopped working and some got their domains for sale, And some of them were still up, In 2009, When Microsoft Agent got discontinued, The Microsoft Agent Ring was shut down for good. Sometime later in 2016, A software website that goes by the name of "ERP Softwares" started providing 536 Agent characters, But however, The site suddenly disappeared in mid 2016,
and check out some of the ms agent hosting places for classic characters you may find, tmafe.com/
if you found a character please reply here or private message me. and tell me it's name, what company or person made it, what year when it was made, and also put a image. thank you. for people that have old obscure ms agent character acs files in their old computers, whatever they downloaded it or buyed it during the 2000s