This week at the Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella spent a lot of time talking up chatbots: Robots that help you get stuff done through normal human conversations. But for those of us ...

From the late 1990s, an "Office Assistant" interactive animated character would pop up to offer help with the task it ...

In case you missed it, likely by being born too late, "Clippy" was arguably Microsoft's first virtual assistant. In operation from Microsoft Office 97 to Office 2007, Clippy popped up in Microsoft ...