If you're of a certain age or just an astute student of Microsoft history, you'll remember Clippy. The paperclip-shaped ...

Clippy the paperclip was a simplistic virtual assistant who offered tips and advice to Microsoft Office users, from 1997 and until the mid-2000s. Its constant pop-ups to suggest "help" with the ...

An interesting addition is the new Clippy emoji in place of the paper clip, which the firm was teasing on its social media platforms yesterday. There are examples of a bunch of other designs that ...

Microsoft's Clippy, the animated paperclip-shaped chatbot of olde, was at times presumptuous — popping up unsolicited with unhelpful suggestions — but at least he never told us to kill ourselves!

That friend is Clippy, the much-maligned Microsoft Office paperclip assistant, who interrupted your flow with suggestions that forced you to reconsider the wisdom of the task at hand. Michal Nachmany, ...

On both occasions, Benioff compared Microsoft's Copilot to Clippy — the discontinued animated paperclip that offered suggestions in applications including Word. "When you look at how Copilot has ...

If you remember Clippit (also known as Clippy), the animated paperclip Microsoft developed in the early 2000s to help users when they had a problem, you probably thought virtual assistants would die a ...

Last month Benioff compared Copilot to Clippy, Microsoft's discontinued animated paperclip assistant. Marc Benioff has criticized Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, for the second time in as many ...