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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 Clippy, the cartoon paperclip helper, might come back as an emoji, the company said. More than 320,000 users across Twitter and Instagram have said they want to bring Clippy back. Clippy ...

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. In 2021, meme culture is everpresent. In 1997 it was still developing, but Clippy, the Microsoft Office for ...

Remember Clippy? It was the animated paperclip that "helpfully" assisted Microsoft Office users if they were typing up a Word document, making a PowerPoint, or working on an Excel Spreadsheet.

Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...

Microsoft 365 may be all the rage now, but there were also simpler times when the only version offered by Microsoft for its Office products was the "perpetual" version. To be clear, it still exists, ...

If you used Microsoft Office at all between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember Clippy. The animated paperclip can be considered an early attempt at a virtual assistant, appearing to offer users help ...

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, ...