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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Quistgaard wants to "kill" Clippit, an animated paperclip assistant that inhabits several Microsoft Office applications. Clippit, according to Quistgaard, tries to guess what you're doing ...

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.

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 ...