Formed in September 2025, The Microsoft Agent Frontier Ring is a renowned collection of websites featuring Microsoft Agent technologies. Around our ring, you will find web sites, applications, and character designers utilizing these fascinating technologies in the most innovative and coolest ways...

Formed in September 1997 and taken down in 2017, The Microsoft Agent Ring was a large collection of websites featuring Microsoft Agent technologies.

Microsoft Agent was a technology developed by Microsoft that allows for users to interact with animated characters inside applications and web pages. It used text to speech engines to allow the animated characters to speak to the end user. These animated characters were called "Microsoft Agents". It came preinstalled with Windows beginning with Windows 98. Microsoft Agent continued to release alongside all Windows versions until Windows 7 in 2009, following Microsoft's discontinuation of Microsoft Agent. The latest release of Microsoft Agent was version 2.0 on October 12th, 1998.

Microsoft Agent allowed for users of the software to make characters through the Microsoft Agent Character Editor. Four default characters were made by Microsoft on the original page, including Genie, Merlin, Peedy, and Robby. Some other notable characters are those featured in the Microsoft Office suite throughout 1997 to 2003, including Clippy, Dot, or Office Logo. The Windows XP search assistants are also Microsoft Agents, including Rover. Another mentionable Microsoft Agent is Bonzi, a purple gorilla that came bundled BonziBUDDY until its discontinuation. The Bonzi character later received a lot of attention after being a meme following multiple meme videos on it before a streamer eventually streamed an XP destruction causing the popularity of the Bonzi character to rise.

What is a Ring? A Ring is collection of web sites that have a similar interest linked together in a ring. Links on each web site in the ring (like those shown below) allow ring surfers (that's you!) to move from one web site to the next, eventually traversing the entire ring and ending up where they started. There are thousands of rings in existence today covering nearly every topic imaginable.

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Press Releases

2025-11-02 - Lord and Savior Bellcraft Shut Down ;(

Bellcraft Website shuts down. Although Bellcraft has been shut down, MASH and DeskBot has been archived for historical reasons and to still provide access for existing Windows users around the world.

2009-04-01 - Microsoft Agent Discontinued in Windows 7 and later :(

Microsoft discontinues Microsoft Agent in Windows 7 and later. Although Microsoft Agent has been discontinued in Windows 7 and later, it has been archived for historical reasons and to still provide access for existing Windows users around the world.

2000-07-05 - Microsoft Agent Expands Support for Foreign Languages With Release of New Text-to-Speech Engines

Enhanced User Interface for Software Applications and Web Sites To Speak to Millions of Users Worldwide in Their Own Languages.

1998-10-12 - Microsoft Agent 2.0 Released

The Innovative Technology That Will Enhance Human-Computer Communication In Upcoming Products, Including Office 2000, Is Available for Download Now.

1997-09-08 - Microsoft Agent 1.5 Released

New Technology Supports Interactive Characters for Internet and ActiveX-Based Applications, Enabling More Natural User Interfaces.

Note: Microsoft Agent 1.0 was never officially released.

1996-10-28 - First Microsoft Agent Beta Announcement

ActiveX Technology for Interactive Software Agents

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