"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Clippy hasn't had an easy life. Microsoft's iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paperclip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the ...

If you were around for the release of Office 97, you'll know the overly-helpful Clippy Office Assistant. For newcomers to Office Suite, he was actually quite useful, showing you the ropes of the new ...

If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy. pic.twitter.com/6T8ziboguC — Microsoft (@Microsoft) July 14, 2021 Well ...

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Microsoft is bringing back its long-retired Clippy to some of its key products -- but only as an emoji, not in its previous role as a digital assistant that many people found very annoying. Microsoft ...

Microsoft fired Clippy, its animated paperclip helper in Office, about 20 years ago, but in a nostalgic move, Microsoft is reviving its old assistant in Microsoft Teams. The new Clippy is now part of ...

Remember Clippy? Of course you do - if you were around in the 90s anyway, when the iconic paperclip was unleashed as Microsoft's assistant for Office. But the helper wasn't created on a Windows 95 PC, ...

"Halo Infinite" is giving the world their favorite Microsoft mascot a tactical makeover, with Clippy joining the game as a new accessory to collect in the game. Microsoft's Clippy is one of the ...

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. In 2021, meme culture is everpresent. In 1997 it was still developing, but Clippy, the Microsoft Office for ...