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's Clippy, the cartoon paperclip helper ... made a comeback in 2019 when some Microsoft workers created Clippy animated stickers in Teams, but the effort was quickly squashed by the ...

LinkedIn users may never see an animated paperclip popping up to ask, "Can I help you with that?" But that won't stop them from worrying. Following the news that Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26. ...

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 ...

Two years since its demise, the spectre of Microsoft’s animated paperclip, Clippy, still haunts anyone hoping to develop a virtual assistant to help people get things done. Few have tried to ...

The idea to resurrect Clippy comes from a German software developer Belmin Hasanovic, who has drafted in the assistant – the icon of which is an animated paperclip, as you may recall – for ...