Microsoft Killed Clippy
You b@$tards!
Friday, February 9, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The day has finally come, no longer will you have a friendly paper clip constantly offering to help make your document creating experience better. No more will you see a bouncing piece of bent metal with googly eyes bouncing at the corner of your screen, begging you to let it help fix the formatting, or suggest a particular word. Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, has been put to rest. His smiling visage will no longer greet us when writing a letter. The Microsoft Office team confirmed that with 2007, Clippy is officially done and gone. Starting life in 1997 with Office 97, he was a constant annoyance to document users for nearly a full decade.
App Scout has an interview with the Office Group Program Manager at Microsoft to chat a bit about the timely demise of one of the most annoying "features" ever to be added to Office.
Clippy, 1997 - 2007. RIP
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Reply #22 Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:19 PM
I've been using htis picture for some time now, in various places. It seems my campaign is finally a success. Hooray!
Reply #24 Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:52 PM
Reply #26 Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:13 AM
Hey! No picking on the dogs. If you want to shoot something I think trolls are in season.
Reply #27 Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:25 PM
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Reply #29 Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:33 PM
I smell a rat: Clippy was so annoying that killing him has become a publicity stunt for Microsoft. I'll bet his wretched code will still be buried in there somewhere, waiting to get out and "help." And in two years they'll really be killing him, for the last time, they mean it, he really won't be coming back, no it really is the end for Clippy....
The little _______ has more lives than Dracula.
Reply #30 Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:46 PM
Even Bin Laden wouldn't deserve THAT.....
Reply #31 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 8:01 PM
It's been several years now and I miss Clippy ..I want him back! 
Reply #39 Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:37 PM
lol!! I never listened to Clippy's multiple choice suggestions--- just thought he was cute looking in a kind of ... um,.. wirey sort of way..heheh.
Just loved all of your replies though....lol!! --- 
~Boldy
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Reply #21 Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:17 PM