Even Microsoft’s retro holiday sweaters are having Copilot forced upon them

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I may take or leave some of the things Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 these days, but I generally enjoy the company’s annual limited-time holiday sweater releases. Usually tailored around a specific image or product from the company’s ’90s and early 2000s days — 2022’s sweater was Clippy themed, and 2023’s sweater just had Windows XP Bliss as wallpaper — the sweaters usually hit the perfect combination of dorky/cute/recognizable that makes a good holiday party conversation starter.

Microsoft is reviving the tradition for 2025 after taking a year off, and the design of this year’s flagship $80 sweater is mostly in line with what the company has done in years past. The 2025 “Artifact Holiday Sweater” revives many pixelated icons that Windows 3.1-to-XP users will recognize, including Notepad, Reversi, Paint, MS-DOS, Internet Explorer, and even the MSN butterfly logo. Clippy, once again, looks happy to be front and center.

Not all icons are from Microsoft’s past; A sunglasses-wearing emoji, a “50” in the style of the old flying Windows icon (for Microsoft’s 50th anniversary), and a minecraft Creeper appreciated the company’s more modern products. But really that’s all I take Issue Vid is on the right sleeve, where Microsoft has stuck a pixelated monochrome icon for its Copilot AI assistant.



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