Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an iconic part of using a Microsoft computer in the late '90s.

Clippy is back on the desktop, in a fashion, with the iconic assistant (originally in Office 97) coming to Windows 11 in order to debloat the OS – via a third-party utility, we should swiftly add.

The Clippy Desktop Assistant is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux via the project’s website, with a deeper look behind the curtain available on Github.

Versions of Microsoft Office released between 1997 and 2004 used the paperclip-shaped digital assistant Clippy. Subsequently, the company abandoned it with the release of Office 2007, although there ...

If you miss the Clippy days of Windows, then I’ve got good news for you. Software company FireCube has resurrected Clippy and infused it with the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. FireCube’s take on Clippy ...

Downloading and running the Clippy Desktop Assistant takes five minutes—longer if you choose a larger model. After that, you’ve got an AI chat interface that looks and feels like 1996, but ...

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.

Microsoft's virtual assistant "Clippy" might be coming back. On Wednesday, Microsoft said on Twitter that they might bring Clippy back as an emoji if they received 20,000 likes. The small paper ...

Clippy, Microsoft’s unwanted, unloved Office assistant, once listed as one of Time’s 50 Worst Inventions, is experiencing a renaissance. You remember Clippy. He was the animated paper clip who ...