Remember Clippy? Well the annoying animated Microsoft Office virtual assistant is back for the holidays! The paperclip would pop-up at just the wrong time to offer suggestions that were only slightly useful. Microsoft has brought back Clippy in a an ugly Christmas sweater available from the X-Box store for $74.99.
The sweater includes the annoying dialog boxes that would interrupt your work that “helpfully” assisted users if they were typing up a Word document, making a PowerPoint, or working on an Excel Spreadsheet seemingly the exact second you were working on something important.
According to The Verge, Clippy first popped into Word document in offered its assistance from 1997 until 2001. Those were the Windows XP days over 20 years ago. More recently, Clippy has shown up in Microsoft Teams. Clippy has also returned to replace the standard paperclip emoji in Windows 11.
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