Clippy, who made his debut more than four years ago with the January, 1997, launch of Office 97, is actually based on complex algorithms developed by Microsoft's research arm to analyze natural ...

Since Clippy was sent to the technology retirement home in 2001, the paperclip has lived on in sarcastic memes, which all begin with Clippy’s catchphrase: “It looks like you’re trying to…” ...

Developer FireCube Studios has released its own version of Clippy, Microsoft's old Office Assistant, for Windows 11. It uses ChatGPT for its answers, but you will need a paid OpenAI key to use it.

Is Copilot just Clippy 2.0? Microsoft launched an office assistant called Clippy, represented by an animated paperclip, back in the '90s but removed it after many users became frustrated with it.

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“Whether you love or loathe Clippy, it’s hard to not smile—just admit it—when you see it pop up in a meme somewhere. We know the feelings can be complex,” Microsoft wrote.

But Clippy has managed to find a way into some users' hearts, and in 2021, Microsoft said the character could make a comeback as an emoji following a social-media campaign. "He's a guy that just ...

In a tweet, Microsoft said that it would replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy if the tweet got more than 20,000 likes. Currently, the tweet is sitting at nearly 150,000 likes.

Part of a much larger, much more benign emoji update — Aside from Clippy’s unholy return, Microsoft’s newest line of emoji updates actually looks pretty nice. With the latest update, over ...

“Clippy has been trying to get his job back since 2001, and his brief appearance on GitHub was another attempt,” says a Microsoft spokesperson said. “While we appreciate the effort, we have no plans ...