It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

"It's probably the most annoying innovation Microsoft has added to Office in years," was one of the more polite descriptions of Microsoft's animated Office assistant, which first reared its ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Monica Nickelsburg on Jan 4, 2017 at 5:09 pm January 4, 2017 at 5:16 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It looks like you've clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office ...

Microsoft Hopes Mico Succeeds Where Clippy Failed as Tech Companies Warily Imbue AI With Personality Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might ...

If you miss the Clippy days of Windows, then I’ve got good news for you. Software company FireCube has resurrected Clippy and infused it with the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. FireCube’s take on Clippy ...

Clippy is, at this point, one of the icons of the ’90s PC boom, along with the flying toasters screensaver, the Windows start-up sound, the dancing baby GIF, and pretty much everything related to AOL.

Microsoft Copilot will eventually bring ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat features to Windows 11 PCs, but you don't have to wait that long to try a ChatGPT app on your laptop or desktop. A developer brought ...