"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 ...

Microsoft might be best known for the Windows operating system, but its second-biggest and most successful software is arguably Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (though some might argue ...

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 ...

It was the original virtual assistant, released years before Siri, Alexa, and Bixby. Now, almost two decades after it was axed, Microsoft's Clippy is officially back. The friendly anthropomorphic ...

Microsoft has added Clippy into Microsoft Teams as part of a sticker pack. “Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement! Whether you loved him or hated him, Clippy is back with a Retro Sticker Pack in ...

If you used Microsoft years ago, you may remember Clippy, an animated paperclip with big eyebrows and even bigger eyes. The tool was established in 1997, developing lovers and haters alike, as he ...

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 ...

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This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons like Twitter’s Fail Whale and AOL’s Running Man. Clippit, the infamous Microsoft Office assistant, lived like a firework, or perhaps ...

Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the boot by Office ...

Clippy, or Clippit, from Microsoft Office. Hey, Clippy, take note. No one actually misses you. The infamous, virtual, and often annoying animated paperclip assistant, released by Microsoft for Office ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s Clippy has had a hard life. Born in Office 97, Clippy politely offered ...