"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 ...

Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s virtual assistant in the late ’90s and early 2000s? One of its most famous lines – which would appear in a pop-up ...

If you were around for the release of Office 97, you'll know the overly-helpful Clippy Office Assistant. For newcomers to Office Suite, he was actually quite useful, showing you the ropes of the new ...

Microsoft's animated paper clip named Clippy has been revived, thanks to the crazy sense of humor of the folks at startup Smore. We discovered the Clippy.js project, through a Google+ post by Linux ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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: ...

On Microsoft’s official Office GitHub repository (which contains, alas, not the source code to Office itself but lots of developer content for software that extends Office), the widely loved (?) ...

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What just happened? The latest Windows 11 preview release includes the introduction of a new style of emojis. After a PR campaign that started earlier this summer, Microsoft decided to resurrect ...