{"id":126385,"date":"2022-11-16T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=126385"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:17:49","slug":"clippy-christmas-sweater-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/clippy-christmas-sweater-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippy Christmas Sweater from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-126397\" title=\"Clippy Christmas Sweater from Microsoft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa_cap.jpg?resize=90%2C79&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Clippy Christmas Sweater from Microsoft\" width=\"90\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa_cap.jpg?resize=150%2C132&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa_cap.jpg?resize=75%2C66&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa_cap.jpg?resize=768%2C675&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa_cap.jpg?w=987&amp;ssl=1 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230325132416\/https:\/\/gear.xbox.com\/products\/clippy-holiday-sweater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X-Box store<\/a> for $74.99.<\/p>\r\n<p>The sweater includes the annoying dialog boxes that would interrupt your work that &#8220;helpfully&#8221; 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.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221208050223\/https:\/\/gear.xbox.com\/products\/clippy-holiday-sweater?_pos=1&amp;_sid=94ee73900&amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126388\" title=\"Windows Ugly Sweater: Clippy Edition\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/clippy_swtr.jpg?resize=300%2C246&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows Ugly Sweater: Clippy Edition\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/clippy_swtr.jpg?resize=150%2C123&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/clippy_swtr.jpg?resize=75%2C62&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/clippy_swtr.jpg?w=725&amp;ssl=1 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/1\/22756973\/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>, Clippy first popped into Word document in\u00a0 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.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/updates\/help-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How you can help Ukraine!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a title=\"The Twisted Life of Clippy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlemet.com\/news-and-city-life\/2022\/08\/origin-story-of-clippy-the-microsoft-office-assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Twisted Life of Clippy<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Seattle Met\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlemet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Met<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a>\u00a0about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on\u00a0<a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clippy the annoying animated Microsoft Office virtual assistant is back for the holidays as an ugly holiday sweater &#8211; available at the XBOX store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3125],"tags":[3627,924,2504,82,421,3624,366],"class_list":["post-126385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-3627","tag-christmas","tag-clippy","tag-microsoft","tag-msft","tag-ugly-sweater","tag-xbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126385"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128085,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126385\/revisions\/128085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}