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Microsoft Killed Clippy

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Microsoft Killed Clippy

You b@$tards!

http://www.appscout.com/2007/02/to_kill_a_paperclip.php
from WinCustomize Forums

The day has finally come, no longer will you have a friendly paper clip constantly offering to help make your document creating experience better.  No more will you see a bouncing piece of bent metal with googly eyes bouncing at the corner of your screen, begging you to let it help fix the formatting, or suggest a particular word.  Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, has been put to rest.  His smiling visage will no longer greet us when writing a letter.  The Microsoft Office team confirmed that with 2007, Clippy is officially done and gone.  Starting life in 1997 with Office 97, he was a constant annoyance to document users for nearly a full decade.

App Scout has an interview with the Office Group Program Manager at Microsoft to chat a bit about the timely demise of one of the most annoying "features" ever to be added to Office. 

Clippy, 1997 - 2007.  RIP

49,732 views 39 replies
Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd rather have an animated paper clip than that stupid dog in xp *loads scoped shotgun & shots dog*


Hey! No picking on the dogs. If you want to shoot something I think trolls are in season.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Bury him with Jar Jar Binks in a lead coffin with a large multi-language warning on it, maybe with some nuclear waste as a deterent to future generations
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm one of the few people who actually liked Clippy- and all the other help animations that Office 97 had available. I thought it brought a little levity and whimsy into Microsoft Office and even downloaded all the other cute animations from the Microsoft site .

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Didn't they kill Clippy two years ago, too? I seem to remember MS making a big deal about it then, with an announcement featuring the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. Anyone else remember this?

I smell a rat: Clippy was so annoying that killing him has become a publicity stunt for Microsoft. I'll bet his wretched code will still be buried in there somewhere, waiting to get out and "help." And in two years they'll really be killing him, for the last time, they mean it, he really won't be coming back, no it really is the end for Clippy....

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Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bury him with Jar Jar Binks

Even Bin Laden wouldn't deserve THAT.....

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's been several years now and I miss Clippy ..I want him back! <X3

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh?

 

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Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I like this one.....[naturally]...;)

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 35


I like this one.....[naturally]...
End of Jafo's quote

Even with the nasty typo? ;)

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Clippy did not die..... He defected!

 

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I never liked it and Had it TURNED OFF

 

 

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

lol!!   I never listened to Clippy's multiple choice suggestions--- just thought he was cute looking in a kind  of ... um,.. wirey sort of way..heheh.

 

Just loved all of your  replies though....lol!! --- XD

 

~Boldy