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The Death of Clippy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the annoying-desktop-mascots dept.

AppScout interviews Office's Group Program Manager, Jensen Harris on the subject of Office 2007. Harris reveals that Clippy, the bane of all semi-sentient Office users everywhere, is officially dead. The decision apparently revolved not around the passionate hatred for the unfortunate sprite, but simply out of a desire for UI coherency.

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  1. Clippy: Do you need help with a post? by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Choose the type of post:
    -Fence-
    -Slashdot-
    -Last-

    You chose -last post-, do you want help writing a suicide note?

    --
    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
  2. Yes but... by kisielk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... has Netcraft confi.... aw, forget it.

  3. There's a couple more "features" they could lose.. by Xanius · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well the new UI fits better with vista and for the lower end users of word, you know the ones that could never afford to buy it anyway, everything they need is right there in the shortcuts. My problem with word is that it has too many damned retarded features that will make me strangle a man with his own tie if I ever see him using them in a business report. My schools business college requires I take a fundamentals of the PC class, which is actually a class dedicated to microsoft products. Word,Power point, and excel, I figure I can pass this no problem so I go to take the test and it wants me to tell it how to put a specific type of word art in the paper or how to add embellishment to the letters. Why in gods name would I ever use word art in a business report? Do I work for fucking kindergarteners? I know where the word art is, it's hard to miss. But I don't know the names of them and I don't ever want to know the names of them.