Microsoft's once infamous, but now loved (sort of) Office Assistant Clippy was, in many ways, a precursor to what the company is trying to to do now with its generative AI features like Bing Chat and ...

In 1997, Microsoft added a new feature to their revamped version of the Microsoft Office suite — the Office Assistant. This little cartoon character would hang out at the bottom of the window and ...

If you’re old enough to remember when 8MB thumb drives hit the scene, you’ll probably remember Clippy, Microsoft’s digital writing assistant. Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from ...

A new app on the Microsoft Store brings the power of ChatGPT to Clippy. Clippy by FireCube uses OpenAI to empower a Clippy assistant that sits on your desktop. Just like Clippy of old, it can help ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Clippy hasn't had an easy life. Microsoft's iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paperclip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the ...

“It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about ‘Clippy.’ Would you like to know more?” For a generation of Microsoft ...

AI always reminds me of Clippy, the infamous talking paperclip added to Microsoft Office in the '90s. This little guy frustrated users, was based on a faulty understanding of how people want to use ...

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 ...