we do know we're attempting to sympathise with what is functionally an animated paperclip icon on the computer. Nevertheless, while seeing him return as an emoji isn't actually a bad idea ...

Microsoft even sandbagged us all, promising that they would replace the “paperclip” icon with Clippy if we ... unexpected, animated emoji was the entire point of Microsoft’s My People ...

Clippy is back on the desktop, in a fashion, with the iconic assistant (originally in Office 97) coming to Windows 11 in order to debloat the OS – via a third-party utility, we should swiftly add.

This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons like Twitter’s Fail ... and I’m going to tell you, these animated characters are male-looking.’ Ho continues, saying ...

Either way, now you’ll have a number of Clippy icons from which to choose ... formal part of Microsoft Office years ago, but the animated paperclip has snuck back into the tech zeitgeist ...

The animated paperclip can be considered an early attempt at a virtual assistant, appearing to offer users help and tips with the Office platform. Though it’s been 20 years since Clippy ...

Last month Benioff compared Copilot to Clippy, Microsoft's discontinued animated paperclip assistant. Marc Benioff has criticized Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, for the second time in as many ...

You remember Clippy. He was the animated paper clip who would pop up, uninvited, in Microsoft Office to state the obvious and offer unwanted advice: “It looks like you’re writing a letter.

But as I watched Aparna Pappu, Google’s Workspace leader, outline the feature onstage at I/O, I was reminded of a certain animated paperclip that another tech giant once hoped would help usher ...

Many attempts to make computers more personable have failed – like the famously irritating animated paperclip, otherwise known as Microsoft’s “office assistant”. But perhaps we would enjoy ...