"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 ...

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 ...

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.

Microsoft just announced Mico, a new expressive avatar interface for Copilot that will appear when you talk to it. It can emote, change shape, and float around the Copilot interface while you chat, ...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff compared Microsoft's Copilot to Office's much-maligned "Clippy." Benioff made the comment at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference last week. Salesforce just launched its own ...

Microsoft's Clippy has been resurrected for a cameo appearance in the company's latest Copilot update, which broadly aims to make its AI assistant more friendly, warm, and human-centered in its ...

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 ...

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 would ...

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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 ...