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Some of the stuff on this page seems like it would be better suited on the Office Assistant article. Andrevan 00:31, 2004 June 30 (UTC)

The author of this page does not understand the Lumiere project of Microsoft Research which was quite different than the Office Assistant developed by a Microsoft product team. The research project was concerned about appropriate interruption from the very beginning and did not focus on character-based agents, but on providing the right assistance. Interested readers should see: http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/lumiere.htm

OK, Clippy is now more carefully set apart from Lumiere AlainV 08:01, 2004 Apr 6 (UTC)

Contents 1 My Discovery 2 bad link? 3 A rejected link 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Genie.png 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Merlin.png 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Robby.png 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Search msagent.png

[edit] My Discovery

Hello, I am a big fan of Microsoft Agents and I was turning all Office Assistants and Search Assistants into Agents like Merlin when I discovered an unknown agent character file in my computer, I copied it I pasted in Chars, so I can see it now on MASH. It is the question mark of Help and the name of its file is qmark. It is in System32/Oobe/Images. It has movement and actions like the other agents. If you search for all Microsoft Agent Character Files, you will find it (Windows XP)I am logged out know, but my account is Jomiarias, if you have something to tell me about this, write to jomiarias@yahoo.es. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.28.90.161 (talk) 15:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bad link?

one of the links at the bottom of the page, "The Agnetry", leads to a under construction site. Please either fix the link, or remove it. The pointer outer 22:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A rejected link

I understand that links should not be added to promote a product. Clearly it could be argued that the link to "Planetvixen third party A.I program" has no place on Wikipedia since it serves no purpose except to promote a product. On the other hand the link to "Sunfire's Microsoft Agent Pages" is clearly a personal site (which seems to serve no purpose other than to promote a product) This argument doesn't even take into consideration the image of the Cynthia 3.0 A.I. Bot (which seems to have little or no relationship to Agent technology).

Our site at http://www.pippin.us has a UNIQUE, fully functional script unlike any other on the Internet which can also be FREELY copy and pasted to other websites. All things considered, I would sumerize the content on our site to be just as useful and any other for those that wish to learn more about the Microsoft Agent technology. We teach by example. Based on your explanation to why our site isn't included leads me to think that none of the websites you currently list should be included.

Ananova is a Web-oriented news service that originally featured a computer-simulated animation of a woman newscaster, named "Ananova," who had been programmed to "read" newscasts to Web users. The full page article at wikipedia reads that the animated Ananova character has been unavailable since sometime in 2004. Our website does it equally as well and our Microsoft Agent character is still reading newscast to web surfers freely after all these years. Does this mean the individual who thinks a simple link on the Microsoft agent page to our website is not appropriate is in process of writing up an entire page devoted to our little newscaster at http://www.pippin.us? - BruceCPippin 03:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Genie.png

Image:Microsoft Agent Genie.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 20:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Merlin.png

Image:Microsoft Agent Merlin.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 20:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Microsoft Agent Robby.png

Image:Microsoft Agent Robby.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 20:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Search msagent.png

Image:Search msagent.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 11:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)