But I reckon Clippy was ahead of its time. It doesn’t deserve the bad rep it had back then, and I’ll explain why. Clippy Was Great for Kids and Beginners I started school in the late 1990s at ...

Microsoft's once infamous, but now loved (sort of) Office Assistant Clippy was, in many ways, a precursor to what the company is trying to to do now with its generative AI features like Bing Chat ...

That friend is Clippy, the much-maligned Microsoft Office paperclip assistant, who interrupted your flow with suggestions that forced you to reconsider the wisdom of the task at hand. Michal Nachmany, ...