Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day (engadget.com) 79
The dream of the '90s was alive in Microsoft Teams this week when Microsoft's old office assistant, Clippy, showed up. From a report: If you used Microsoft Office between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember Clippy as the animated paperclip that popped up and offered tips for using the software. Microsoft did away with Clippy in 2001, so people were surprised to see Clippy stickers appear in Microsoft Teams this week. And they were even more surprised when, just a day later, Microsoft offed the little guy again. On Tuesday, Clippy appeared as an animated pack of stickers for Microsoft Teams. The stickers were released on the Office Developer GitHub page, but by the next day, they had vanished. Clippy was around just long enough to rally old fans, and there's now a user petition to bring Clippy back.
I've come to truly hate this world... (Score:1)
"there's now a user petition to bring Clippy back."
This kind of stuff. Every single bit of "news" these days...
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The vapid, nostalgia-driven reactions of the masses are to applaud things just because they remember them and not for what they represent.
Clippy was always fucking horrible.
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Look, if there was a costume party in Hollywood and Nathan Fillion showed up dressed as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, you tell me YOU wouldn't be signing the petition for a Firefly reboot the next day.
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I'm not sure, but I think Firefly is a little higher on the list of canceled things than Clippy.
I remember ... (Score:1, Funny)
The absolute best "add-on" for Microsoft Orifice spun up a sledgehammer to close "Clippy". Each time clippy got hit by the hammer he got a little more bent out of shape until eventually he was "afraid" to pop up anymore ...
All most as good as xroaches ...
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Re: I remember ... (Score:1)
This is absolutely not true
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Paper clip.
Bent out of shape.
I see what you did there.
We remember (Score:1)
We remember. [pinimg.com]
Dammit, Bring him back RIGHT NOW! (Score:5, Funny)
”Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day”
Don’t be selfish - there are a lot of us who’d LOVE to share in the pleasure of killing the bastard!
In other way more important news (Score:1)
Mueller's report is in. No collusion. No more indictments.
Slashdot would have posted the story already but the Liberals who submit the stories are too busy crying into their craft soda.
Clip, clip, hooray! (Score:3)
According to a report from The Verge, Clippy disappeared from both locations just a day after being introduced at the behest of what one source called the 'brand police.'
Another take on it. [dailymail.co.uk]
Best Clippy quote: "Perhaps it is the file which exists and you do not."
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I know where it went (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you're trying to avoid plummeting into the ground.
Would you like me to:
Shove the nose down
Shove the nose even further down
Say it was pilot error
Clippy is Cortana (Score:1)
Clippy doesnt need to be revived its just had a gender crisis and renamed to Cortana, same logic is there though, a douchebag decision tree based on Eliza concepts of NLP but presented in a condescending way while it rifles through your companies secrets to see if a 2bit middleman they designate can sell you Chinese trinkets with a "but its designed in USA" sticker plastered onto it.
So... (Score:3, Interesting)
Der Revolution (Score:1)
Always coming back in your face. Clippy. Socialism. Everything that sucks.
whaaaat? how cool is this???? (Score:3)
the other options (Score:2)
Clippy was annoying, but one of the other options was a claymation Einstein. That one was OK. There was also something else, but I don't remember what it was.
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Merlin the wizard.
Then there was Bonzi buddy, who used the same engine to install malware and spy on your browsing history while acting like an idiot on your taskbar,
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Clippy was annoying, but one of the other options was a claymation Einstein. That one was OK. There was also something else, but I don't remember what it was.
Microsoft Bob
Why all the hate? (Score:2)
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I see you used the word "Attached"-- Did you mean to add an attachment? (On a letter offering condolences on their accidental amputation, and how relieved you are that they could get it re-attached.)
I see you are writing a letter, would you like help? (never mind that you have been writing letters for years, and dont need any help from an over-exuberant paperclip.)
I see you just bolded some text-- would you like
NO CLIPPY, I WOULD NOT. GO AWAY.
that's where the hate comes from.
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Clippy was Microsoft's arrogance and condescension semi-personified. I suppose infantalization is humanizing in a sense, but certainly not in a good way.
Where's the petition... (Score:2)
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Yeah, Google is like the car salesman who shows you a sedan right after you told him you're shopping for your next pickup truck.
But but but, what about the Cult of Steve Jobs? Reality distortion fields really do work! *smirk*
Kill him with a damn blowtorch. (Score:2)
Websites and apps today have ther own 'clippy' (Score:2)
As annoying as clippy is nostalgically remembered, the level of annoyance of 90's clippy is nothing compared to the forced-to-watch helpful crap that the majority of websites and apps force on us today.
-Overlays on half the websites that tell you to "Enter your email address to receive updates and special coupons "
-Websites asking "Do you accept the use of cookies?"
-Terribly designed mobile webites that contain a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version
-Terribly designed mobile apps that
Killing Clippy twice (Score:2)
I'm so conflicted. Bringing Clippy back was wrong in so many ways, but if it was just to kill it again... almost but not quite justifies it.
Old Fans? (Score:2)
There are no "old fans" of Clippy. The only people who might be "fans" barely remember him from back when they were still in diapers, seeing him on mommy & daddy's computers. No one old enough to have actually used MS Office in those years is a "fan" of the little bastard, just neo-hipsters looking at it as retro kitsch.
Microsoft (Score:2)
Dog Office Assistant (Score:2)