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Story: Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source

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Lousy transcription, or does Michael really talk like John Prescott?

Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office should be able to sympathise.

- extra 'the' makes the above confusing.

The example I like to give is "Clippy" — remember? — that whipping boy of journalists. You couldn't turn it off and it came on and you had to talk to it before you came on.

- 'before you came on' - does this refer to the menstrual cycle?

I can help feeling that the interviewer has not made the best sense of what Michael was saying to them.

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