Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s Clippy has had a hard life. Born in Office 97, Clippy ...

Clippy started off life in Office 97, politely offering hints for using Microsoft’s Office software. People had mixed responses to the Groucho-browed interruptions, and Clippy’s stint as ...

But for those of us who remember using Microsoft Office in the 1990s and early 2000s, the concept raises the specter of Clippy — the paper-clip-shaped, animated help tool that was supposed to ...

Microsoft Office’s assistant Clippy lives as an unkind memory among those of us old enough to remember it, seventeen years after it disappeared for good. But I reckon Clippy was ahead of its time.

Clippy, Microsoft’s unwanted, unloved Office assistant, once listed as one of Time’s 50 Worst Inventions, is experiencing a renaissance. You remember Clippy. He was the animated paper clip who ...

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This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons like Twitter’s Fail Whale and AOL’s Running Man. Clippit, the infamous Microsoft Office assistant, lived like a firework, or ...

Why Microsoft Office's Clippy had to die, according to the exec who killed him. 2016-03-31T22:09:28Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of a ...

The global outage has stopped thousands of employees from logging into work on this sunny Friday. Banks, airlines and news organisations are among the services hit by the international IT outage, and ...

Noting the presence of Jay Leno and other notables at the Windows 95 launch, Gates said, "Today, we let Office XP speak for itself -- Clippy is the only star." "Windows XP is too easy.