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If you’re old enough to remember when 8MB thumb drives hit the scene, you’ll probably remember Clippy, Microsoft’s digital writing assistant. Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from ...
Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. Here's a ...
I was at Microsoft Ignite last week for the AI and Copilot rollout on Azure and Windows. As I watched the presentation, I was taken back in time to the 1990s launch of Microsoft Bob and that first ...
As an elder millennial, I remember Clippy well. I don't remember Microsoft Office's animated paperclip fondly, but I'll never forget him. The rarely helpful assistant would pop up to make suggestions ...
Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event on Thursday, the company introduced a range of new features and updates for its AI ...
Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wrote on Tuesday that Microsoft Copilot was Clippy 2.0. Benioff said that Copilot was inaccurate and spilled private information, and presented Salesforce’s AI as the ...
Microsoft's Clippy has been resurrected for a cameo appearance in the company's latest Copilot update, which broadly aims to make its AI assistant more friendly, warm, and human-centered in its ...
The creator of Microsoft's divisive assistant "Clippy" said he was "so embarrassed" by it. Kevan Atteberry told Great Big Story he would keep Clippy off his design portfolio. He told the YouTube ...
Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...
Let’s go back to the ’90s. Remember the paperclip that would pop up on screen to offer helpful (and annoying) MS Office advice? Clippy’s creator, Kevan Atteberry, is here to tell the tale of how it ...