In 1997, Microsoft added a new feature to their revamped version of the Microsoft Office suite — the Office Assistant. This little cartoon character would hang out at the bottom of the window and ...

When Microsoft debuted its AI-powered Bing Chat, the obvious point of comparison was Clippy, the virtual assistant users loved and/or loathed in Microsoft Office 97. Now Clippy is back, in a new, ...

It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It looks like you've clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office ...

MICROSOFT’S Clippy was one of the most annoying features ever, but there’s probably a lot you don’t know about the famed paperclip. For those born before the late 90s, the little paperclip character ...

"It looks like you're writing an email. Would you like help?" If you used Microsoft Office during the 90s, these words (or similar) echo in your memory. The Office Assistant, better known as Clippy, ...

Do you remember Clippy? Before Cortana, Alexa, and Siri existed, the anthropomorphic paperclip-shaped assistant dominated the screens of computers everywhere in the 1990s to help Microsoft Office 2001 ...