List of Microsoft Agent-powered programs

[WadmodderShalton]

I've been recently writing a list of programs that used Microsoft Agent technology that were released between the late-1990s to early-2010s, for those who want to be interested in old MSAgent content.

Here's the list of known programs that are powered by Microsoft Agent:

Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003 - The Office Assistant feature from used in older versions of Microsoft's Office suite software that were released in 1999, 2001 and 2003 respectively. Programs included Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Visio, Binder, PhotoDraw, FrontPage, Project & OneNote. The Office Assistants were discontinued and removed from Office 2007 and forward due to its unpopularity.
Microsoft Agent Character Editor - the official character editor released by Microsoft in 1997 and last updated in 1998. MSAgent community member Konnor88 later made a custom version of the program called the Frontier Agent Character Editor.
Lego Creator: Harry Potter - A 2001 PC video game that served as the third installment of the Lego Creator series of games and based on the Harry Potter series, making it the only commercial PC game to use Microsoft Agent technology.
BonziBuddy - a desktop virtual assistant developed by Bonzi Software that was released in 1999 and discontinued in 2004 after two separate lawsuits that resulted in the company's closure, and many antivirus companies labeled the software as both spyware and adware.
MaxAlert - a desktop virtual assistant developed by Bonzi Software which was a redesign of sorts to the company's InternetAlert software that was released in 2003 and discontinued in 2004. This software is unfortunately Lost Media.
Vox Proxy - a shareware addon for Microsoft Office PowerPoint that allowed Microsoft Agent characters to be used in PowerPoint presentations.
powerActor 2000 - another shareware addon for Microsoft Office PowerPoint that allowed Microsoft Agent characters to be used in PowerPoint presentations.
Ace Buddy - a shareware text reader program developed by Zero2000 Software.
Cyberbuddy - a multi-purpose instant messaging software that utilizes Microsoft Agent.
MSAgent Play Functions - A demonstration software by Viper-One for Microsoft's official characters, those being Peedy, Merlin, Genie & Robby.
WebSpeak - a shareware program developed by ShadiSoft that allows you to make your Web pages talk using Microsoft Agent characters.
Aveo Attune - A PC tune-up software bundled with some Dell Application CD-ROMs, the Gravis Xperience 4.4 drivers CD-ROM, CorelDRAW 10, The MP3.com Music and Technology Tour CD and a obscure PC game called Forbidden Forest 3. The software was known for being spyware, resulting in it fading into obscurity.
Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer (MAPV) -  a small and easy to use freeware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to view detailed information & status about MS Agent 2.0, Characters, Installed TTS engines.
Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper (MASH) - a utility software developed by Bellcraft Technologies that allowed for users to record and playback presentations made with Microsoft Agent. MASH originally costed $25 USD before being declared freeware.
DeskBot - a freeware program developed by Bellcraft Technologies that was a multi-featured Clipboard Reader, Text Reader, Time Announcer, Desktop Application for Microsoft Windows featuring Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters.
CharPackage - a freeware program developed by Bellcraft Technologies that allowed users to put MSAgent characters into Self-extracting installer files.
Microsoft Agent Powertoy - an ActiveX control developed by Costas Andriotis that required Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.
Microsoft Music Scripting Helper (MUSH) - a freeware program developed by Pepedog that makes Microsoft Agent characters sing.
Microsoft Agent Scripting Software (MASS) - a shareware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to make animations with one of your characters.
Agent Character Manager - a freeware program developed by Mnerea-Darius AKA MnD Software.
Double Agent - an open-source alternative to Microsoft Agent that allows Agent applications to work on Windows 7. It's available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
PopAgent - A shareware email notification utility for Windows 95, 98 & NT 4.0.
Moony ISDN Call Monitor - a shareware caller ID program developed by Emtec that has an answering machine, and built-in send and receive functionality for faxes.
Ahsha Math 1.5 - an edutainmemt animated math tutor for kids developed by Ahsha in 2002 that uses Microsoft Agent characters.
IBM ViaVoice Pro Millenium Edition - a speech recognition software product developed by IBM in 1999.
MSAgent Decompiler - a utility developed by Lebeau Software that will allow you to extract Microsoft Agent characters (ACS) files.
AnswerPad - an Artificial Intelligence Interface program made by David Whalley that was hosted on the DesktopMates website in the 2000s.
HP Tour Guide - a desktop companion software that came with HP Pavilion PCs pre-installed with Windows ME between 2000-2001 and Windows XP between circa 2001-2003.
TimeAgent - a Freeware clock program developed by Fred Just Soft in 1999.
Web Scrapbook - a webpage designer software originally developed by WebPrecinct in 1999 and later by AgentTaskForceUK.
AgentTaskForceUK's Microsoft Agent software - a series of software titles released between 2000 and 2002 by a small British company called AgentTaskForceUK, these titles were WeatherAgent, NewsAgent, SportsAgent, ShoppingAgent, TraderAgent, GamesAgent, MovieAgent, BookAgent, AstroAgent & TravelAgent. Each taking a grasp at specific topics of online interest, and each with a unique MSAgent character. Unfortunately, all these software titles and their unique characters are now considered Lost Media, with only three of the nine characters found. the other two programs they made were AgentChatter & NetMessenger. Both software offerings from the same company are also lost media as well.
Agent View - a Microsoft Agent Character Viewer developed by James Jenkins.
Agent Clipboard Editor - a utility developed by Lebeau Software that uses Microsoft Agent and Text-to-Speech technologies to read the Windows Clipboard to you whenever it changes.
Cliptalk - an HTML application designed for Internet Explorer developed by Rob Lindman.
DJamp - a freeware plugin for Nullsoft's Winamp developed by Don Johnson from Working Technology that utilizes Microsoft Agent and Text-to-Speech to provide and animated talking DJ.
FreeVoice - a Text-to-Speech and Voice Control software developed by Rohitab Batra.
Karen's Power Toy - a program developed by Karen Kenworthy that uses Microsoft Agent technology to create a kid's toy.
Language Reader - a freeware text reader developed by Authorsoft.
Talking Translator Pro - a shareware program developed by Abhisoft Technologies that allows you to make animations with one of your characters for translating text from foreign languages.

This is just my comprehensive list of confirmed software that uses Microsoft Agent technology, developed in 1997 and discontinued in 2009 with the release of Windows 7. If you know of any other programs powered by Microsoft Agent technology that I've missed, let me know about it in this thread.

Edited August 12, 2024 by WadmodderShalton

[Tripredacus]

I would recommend you use some formatting on your post, such as using the underline on the program names.

[WadmodderShalton]

4 hours ago, Tripredacus said:

I would recommend you use some formatting on your post, such as using the underline on the program names.

Underlined all the programs as suggested.

[WadmodderShalton]

Here are two other Microsoft Agent Programs that I've found after this was written.

Ultra Hal Assistant - a retail desktop assistant developed by Robert Medeksza which uses OCX files with character graphics for each character. With modifications, one could import Microsoft Agent characters converted to OCX to be used with the program.

Agent Molder - a supposedly unreleased software product being made by Rayflex Animation around 1998 to 2000. The product probably never made it out of its beta stages and was quietly cancelled.

[j7n]

"Speaking Clock". It featured two assistants called Checkers and Max. It also included a speaking calculator. If you dragged the assistants they said, "I kinda liked it. Please do it again."