A 2007 Smithsonian Magazine article called Clippy “one of the worst software design blunders,” and Time Magazine named it one of the 50 worst inventions. Perhaps these reactions were exclusive ...

Clippy debuted to much fanfare in Microsoft Office 97, and appeared in other products such as Microsoft Publisher. But the negative reaction to Clippy caused Microsoft to gradually phase him out.

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 ...

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the Clippy we always wanted back when we were typing away on Word, but digital assistants were too primitive and underdeveloped. It’s been over 25 years since Clippy ...