But for those of us who remember using Microsoft Office in the nineties and early 2000s, the concept raises the specter of Clippy - the paper-clip-shaped, animated help tool that was supposed to ...

Microsoft’s Claire Anderson ... An interesting addition is the new Clippy emoji in place of the paper clip, which the firm was teasing on its social media platforms yesterday.

In case you missed it, likely by being born too late, "Clippy" was arguably Microsoft's first virtual assistant. In operation from Microsoft Office 97 to Office 2007, Clippy popped up in Microsoft ...

It's unclear which assistant should be more offended: Microsoft Copilot or Microsoft Office's Clippy. But Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently came at both of them. Benioff dismissed Microsoft's ...