Stationed somewhere in between those gaffes sits Clippy, the unofficial name for the bouncing, sentient paper clip introduced by Microsoft in 1996 in a bid to help people hone their word ...

Delete-I Clippy | The World's Worst AI Assistant Posted: June 6, 2025 | Last updated: June 8, 2025 In 1997, Microsoft introduced a new version of Office featuring Clippit, known as Clippy ...

In doing so, they released a metallic menace upon the world. Bob’s son, Clippy, had been born. Clippy was ostensibly designed to make writing easier. If you started a document with “Dear So ...

The despised talking paper clip is best known for interrupting virtually every task in Microsoft Office, but Clippy actually got his start in a much-forgotten version of Windows, Microsoft Bob.

Then, years later in 2019, Microsoft momentarily resurrected Clippy — only to murder him once again on that very same day. Now, per PC World, Clippy has once again been resurrected, albeit not ...

When Microsoft debuted its AI-powered Bing Chat, the obvious point of comparison was Clippy, the virtual assistant users loved and/or loathed in Microsoft Office 97. Now Clippy is back ...

The official spin was that Office XP is now so easy to use that the world no longer needs Clippy. But we've got the real story . . . Our story begins with the recent class action lawsuit against ...

In an alternate world, we'd all be using Windows Phones, listening to music with Zunes and listening to advice from Clippy. This is not that world. Microsoft recently made it official: its ...

Poor Clippy is laid off for being annoying, and is sent out into the world to earn his way back with useful functions. Ribbon Hero 2 is an add-on for Office (Windows versions only) that teaches ...

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 ...