After all, Microsoft killed off Clippy with the release of Office 2007. The inability to locate Clippy didn’t seem to deter Darryl who emerged as one of the front runners to fill the shoes of ...

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, in a new ...

The dream of the '90s was alive in Microsoft Teams this week when Microsoft's old office assistant, Clippy, showed up. If you used Microsoft Office between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember ...

Microsoft Office’s assistant Clippy lives as an unkind memory among those of us old enough to remember it, seventeen years after it disappeared for good. But I reckon Clippy was ahead of its time.

The bane of Office users for many years, the character, meant to help explain useful functions, was deleted back in 2007. Now Microsoft is bringing him back. Is this a joke?

Clippy debuted to much fanfare in Microsoft Office 97 and appeared in other products, such as Microsoft Publisher. But the negative reaction to Clippy caused Microsoft to gradually phase him out.

Since ChatGPT powers this version of Clippy, you'll need to obtain an OpenAI API key to use his smart reply features. You can get a key for free by registering on OpenAI's website.

He (and he is the right pronoun for this particular mindless bundle of code, but more on that in a moment) was introduced in November 1996. He was refined three years later, in Microsoft Office ...

In Office versions 97 and 2000, if a user typed, "Dear" at the beginning of a document, Clippy would appear in the bottom right corner of the screen with a text bubble that read, "It looks like ...