In 1997, Microsoft introduced a new version of Office featuring Clippit, known as Clippy. Intended to assist users based on Stanford University research, Clippy instead became a source of frustration, ...

"It's probably the most annoying innovation Microsoft has added to Office in years," was one of the more polite descriptions of Microsoft's animated Office assistant, which first reared its ...

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Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s virtual assistant in the late ’90s and ...

Remember Clippy? Of course you do - if you were around in the 90s anyway, when the iconic paperclip was unleashed as Microsoft's assistant for Office. But the helper wasn't created on a Windows 95 PC, ...

For Microsoft's third year of selling Windows ugly sweaters, the company has brought out Clippy, its old paperclip digital assistant in Office apps. The "Windows Ugly Sweater: Clippy Edition" is ...

Microsoft has been making Windows-themed ugly sweaters for five years now. Clippy, the talking paperclip from Office, is this year’s entry, which goes on sale today. Microsoft has been making ...

In brief: The holidays are upon us and Microsoft is getting in the spirit with the launch of its latest ugly sweater. This year's garb features Clippy, the overachieving Office assistant that many ...

I’m not always a fan of corporate whimsy—like when brands’ Twitter accounts have “attitude” or when companies put together cringe-worthy April Fools’ Day pranks—but I do enjoy Microsoft’s now-yearly ...