Clippit, better known as Clippy, is the default animated character in the English Windows version of Microsoft Office Assistant, an interactive user's guide that came pre-installed with Microsoft Office bundles from 1997-2003. Due to its impractical and intrusive nature, Clippy quickly became a subject of mockery among Office users, inspiring a ...

It had a wide selection of characters to choose from, with the most well-known being a paperclip called Clippit[1][2] (commonly referred to by the public as Clippy). The Office Assistant and particularly Clippit have been the subject of numerous criticisms and parodies. The Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office.

2023年7月31日 · Stationed somewhere in between those gaffes sits Clippy, the unofficial name for the bouncing, sentient paper clip introduced by Microsoft in 1996 in a bid to help people hone their word...

Clippy is the paperclip office assistant character created by Microsoft for Microsoft Office (97 and 2003). Like all office assistant characters, Clippy can help office users in many ways (such as writing a text document in Microsoft Word and creating presentations in …

2017年9月15日 · By 2001, Clippy was no longer a default setting—a decision Microsoft heralded with a short, satirical film in which the annoying paper clip inquires: “Are you writing a letter? Is it a love letter? Can I read it?” It wasn’t until 2007 that Clippy disappeared entirely. What …

2016年10月31日 · Clippy interrupted you, but Alexa and Siri only show up when you call. They analyze and sort your photos and email in the background. They don’t announce themselves.

2022年10月31日 · Clippy can now permanently live in Word files, Outlook emails, or other common workplace apps. In one of the company's Teams backgrounds, the paperclip hovers above yellow legal pad paper on a pedestal in a cement-walled basement, seemingly exiled to the dungeon of bad tech ideas.

2022年8月23日 · Clippy can now permanently live in Word files, Outlook emails, or other common workplace apps. In one of the company’s Teams backgrounds, the paperclip hovers above yellow legal pad paper on a pedestal in a cement-walled basement, seemingly exiled …

Users opened their new software only to be greeted by a jovial (slightly leering) paper clip offering to help with anything from saving files to checking your spelling. You could master all you wanted, turn him off or dismiss him a hundred times, but he would come back – and finding the way to shut him up for good wasn’t easy.

2019年5月29日 · Critics of Clippy say his real problem was that he was “optimized for first use.” Clippy’s most popular action was to say “It looks like you’re writing a letter” and offer to help. That may...