"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...

Baby boomer Bill Gates may remember the 1960s "Paul is dead" rumour that dogged Beatle Paul McCartney. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: ...

Do you remember Clippy? Before Cortana, Alexa, and Siri existed, the anthropomorphic paperclip-shaped assistant dominated the screens of computers everywhere in the 1990s to help Microsoft Office 2001 ...

It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

(NEXSTAR) – A tiny anthropomorphized paperclip is making a comeback as people revive Clippy’s memory in protest. Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s ...

Well, Twitter might have just cursed us all (but what else is new?). In a tweet we learned about via The Verge, Microsoft proposed replacing the paperclip emoji in Microsoft Office with Clippy. Yes, ...

Microsoft Copilot will eventually bring ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat features to Windows 11 PCs, but you don't have to wait that long to try a ChatGPT app on your laptop or desktop. A developer brought ...

Shockingly, Microsoft’s Clippy has fans. and they’re responsible for bringing it back — in a limited form. Windows users can’t escape Clippy. The much hated personal assistant is coming back.

Microsoft’s iconic Office Assistant, Clippy, is taking over profile pictures across YouTube, X, and other platforms, and it’s no nostalgia trip. The trend began after YouTuber and consumer rights ...

COMMENTARY--Last week, Microsoft announced that its much-maligned Office Assistant, a.k.a. "Clippy," would be turned off by default in the just-released Microsoft Office XP. The official spin was that ...