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Talkback Clippy is my friend! Leave him alone. Who would have believed that Microsoft Office would be used in primary schools? I was told back in the 1980's that PC's were industrial computers and had no place in secondary education!
[September 28, 2007, 17:59]
Bury Clippy forever review
Reviews Clippy's come back from the dead… When someone told me that Clippy (Microsoft's relentlessly cheerful, animated, paper clip-shaped Office Assistant) was gone forever, I danced on his grave. Clippy’ -- by default.
[July 8, 2002, 10:06]
Microsoft kills off Clippy
News Software giant Microsoft is laying off one of its most controversial employees: Clippy. In Office XP, Microsoft plans to hide the Clippy character tool from view and help people in a less obtrusive manner.
[April 12, 2001, 8:03]
Born again: Clippy returns to haunt Office XP
News But Clippy's demise is more myth than reality. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: Clippy's demise. Clippy, the cute but much maligned animated paper clip introduced with Office 97, was given...
[June 1, 2001, 9:04]
Clippy
Talkback dont no why they would want to kill him off it was a good Gimmick.i liked the paper clip dont no why people complain
[October 3, 2007, 13:37]
Clippy is still loved ...
Talkback .by my son (10) and daughter (6)! I did think that a "dumbed down" version (if that is possible) could be used to provide interaction for children's software. I think this would work well with online protection software.
[September 28, 2007, 13:13]
They killed Clippy... is OneCare next?
Blog Tired at the end of the week? Why not tuck yourself into your, er, cubicle with this heartwarming (and slightly barking) fairytale from the good folks down at Microsoft. Strangely absent from the story of Madeline the CEO is her uncomfortable...
[March 16, 2007, 12:06]
Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
News The example I like to give is "Clippy" — remember? Now turning Clippy off, in my estimation, is a single line of code change. Anyone who's struggled with making documents not created in Word interface with Microsoft Office should be able to...
[September 27, 2007, 18:30]
With friends like that...
Talkback I guess that for kids, Clippy might have some redeemable qualities - but that's no rational for Microsoft to include that piece of excruciating code as standard in Office 97. I am not sure that most primary schools decided to use Office because...
[October 1, 2007, 11:05]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog Comment Perhaps soon we'll see Clippy the Office Assistant popping up with "I see you're not using Microsoft software much any more - would you like help with migrating to something else? Excellent posts.
[October 30, 2009, 7:44]
Lousy transcription, or does Michael really talk like John Prescott?
Talkback The example I like to give is "Clippy" — remember? 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.
[September 28, 2007, 11:11]
Some points
Talkback The “Clippy” quotes are word for word. I took down Michael’s words on my voice recorder. It was recorded at a reasonably noisy conference but the words were as spoken by him. I always aim to leave as many of the interviewees own words in as exactly...
[September 28, 2007, 12:02]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Fuelled with the thrill of killing one mutant undesirable, and drunk with the plaudits of former foes, Microsoft barely paused to wipe the congealed blood from the corporate hatchet before plunging it deep into the grey, slimy flesh of Clippy.
[April 12, 2001, 16:47]
Office System touts time benefits
News The last time Microsoft updated its Office productivity package, one of the company's most reliable moneymakers and one of its most mature and predictable products, the big news was the disappearance of Clippy, the animated helper customers loved...
[October 27, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback And I'm just oh so in love with Clippy, his out-of-context questions, his cute resources-consuming animations and his long shutdown sequence! answering to: Steve Thompson Frankly, I really wanted to crash my thesis, to spend hours applying patches...
[March 13, 2006, 9:06]
Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but worth it'
Talkback But, hey, at least Clippy will work under Longhorn -- you'll just need a supercomputer to run it. Longhorn will give up the only reason people could have for staying with Windows - application compatability.
[August 9, 2004, 12:28]
Siemens MMS phone offers a helping hand
News If Siemen's "digital assistant" can avoid the irritation factor of Microsoft's notorious Clippy, it could help customers to get the most out of their phone. Siemens launched its latest high-end GPRS-enabled mobile phone, the CX65, on Wednesday.
[February 12, 2004, 16:15]
Gates touts Elixir to developers
News Gates showed a fake copy of his sketch, which had messages like "So hungry -- need cheeseburger" and "I miss Clippy. After already having drunk its own Elixir, Microsoft on Friday passed the bottle around.
[February 7, 2005, 13:40]
MySQL 4.1 moves in on Oracle
News For example, we're not going to add feature parity to the point where we add Clippy the paperclip. MySQL, the company which sells services for the MySQL open-source database, will release the production version of MySQL 4.1 on Wednesday.
[October 26, 2004, 16:55]
Mundie: How Windows will survive in the cloud
News That product flopped, although the company did keep at least one Bob innovation, Clippy, as part of Word for some years. Clippy really wasn't enough help. Like others in the industry, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie...
[September 26, 2008, 11:26]
