"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 ...

It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

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 ...

The dream of the '90s was alive in Microsoft Teams this week when Microsoft's old office assistant, Clippy, showed up. If you used Microsoft Office between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember Clippy as ...

Microsoft Teams with Clippy, the original virtual assistant of the messaging software, comes back after it was removed 20 years ago. However, the new version will not be as useful as its previous ...

Whoever is in charge of Microsoft’s Twitter account decided to tempt fate today. “If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy,” the account tweeted. At the ...

Baby boomer Bill Gates may remember the 1960s "Paul is dead" rumour that dogged Beatle Paul McCartney. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: ...

Well, Twitter might have just cursed us all (but what else is new?). In a tweet we learned about via The Verge, Microsoft proposed replacing the paperclip emoji in Microsoft Office with Clippy. Yes, ...

Microsoft’s Clippy is the oft-bemoaned helper of Windows software until the friendly and overzealous paper clip was killed off for Office 2007. Detested by consumers and Microsoft alike, Clippy didn’t ...

Classic Microsoft Windows (particularly Word) users know him well. Clippy, the ever faithful, ever annoying Office assistant is back to offer his help, whether you like it or not! A hilarious video on ...

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