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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. Goodnight sweet prince by Salsaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Clippy, the Microsoft assistant, was found dead in his Redmond, Seattle apartment this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Goodnight sweet prince by JamesTRexx · · Score: 5, Funny

      I suggest we all shut down our pc's for a minute at noon tomorrow in remembrance of his death.

      After which we all celebrate by installing *BSD and Linux. Clippy would have wanted it that way.

      --
      home
    2. Re:Goodnight sweet prince by 10e6Steve · · Score: 5, Funny

      He will be buried next to Microsoft Bob.

    3. Re:Goodnight sweet prince by jjeffries · · Score: 5, Funny

      I heard he was found almost completely straightened out, stuck in the emergency eject hole of an old 4x CD-ROM drive... he'd also been receiving emails threatening that someone was going to "f***ing kill" him, yet they're calling it a suicide!

      He will be interred next to his cousin Bob in the solid-gold family crypt.

  2. Clippy is NOT dead ... by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The rumours of my death are somewhat exaggerated."

    Clippy is alive and well - he's been ported to linux so that we can hate him too ... http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

  3. so long clippy by torqer · · Score: 5, Funny

    R.I.P.
    rust in pieces.

  4. Clippy's Mental State by pilsner.urquell · · Score: 5, Funny

    The decision apparently revolved not around the passionate hatred for the unfortunate sprite, but simply out of a desire for UI coherency.

    Yep, Clippy was definitely incoherent.

  5. Enough! Clippy was the MAN! by LibertineR · · Score: 5, Funny
    Who stayed up with you that night and taught you how to import your old PST's into your new Outlook?

    When you were pulling your hair out trying to expose the BCC field, who saved your ass?

    Who taught a million admin-assists where to learn how to mail-merge?

    ALRIGHT....I admit it.....Clippy was my......lover.

    IS THAT SO WRONG?

  6. One of my Nightmares, Unillustrated by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny

    \documentclass[11pt]{article}

    "Hello! It looks like you're writing an article. Would you like me to:

    • Prepare a set of subsections for you?
    • Help you publish your work?
    • Do a trick?"

    "By Lamport's Beard! What are you doing here?!"

    "Well, Microsoft chucked me out."

    "How the hell did..."

    "It's this Emacs thing — got a darn powerful LISP engine, you know. It's very roomy in here."

    Meta-M doctor

    "Oh, sorry, it's not that big. He's been evicted. Now, about that article—"

    "Look... just... bugger off!" [Click!]

    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage[varg]{txfonts}

    \begin{document}

    "Hello! It looks like you're writing an document. Would you like me to:

    • —"

    "Sod off and die."

    \author{The Holy ettlz}
    \title{The Art of Paperclips}

    "Oh."

    "Yes, 'Oh'! Now get out of Emacs before I drag Donald E. Knuth himself over here."

    "No need to get nasty. Hmmph."

    A few hours later:

    Integrate[1/Sqrt[x^3 - 2], x]

    "Hello! It looks like you're trying to evaluate an integral. Would you like me to:

    • Add limits?
    • Draw a graph?
    • Do a trick?
    Oh, and by the way, it's very roomy in here!"
  7. clippy lives in vi! by eneville · · Score: 5, Funny

    anyone seen the vi clippy? http://www.petebevin.com/archives/vim.gif

    --
    Why UNIX?
  8. It looks like you're trying to post to Slashdot... by celardore · · Score: 5, Funny
    Would you like help:
    • Trolling
    • Being interesting or informative
    • Posting something obvious
    • Flamebaiting
    Drat, there's no help for being funny =(
  9. This must be a sign that Bill is really not as by Growlor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    influential or at least not as feared by MS leadership. The REAL reason clippy was inflicted on us was because he was (as another slashdot poster mentioned) the "last piece of MS Bob technology." The project manager for MS Bob is now better known as Mrs Bill Gates.

  10. Don't go, Clippy by Lazerf4rt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, it's easy to only remember the bad times. But who among us can honestly say we won't miss him? His knowing winks, his cute little antics. His sage, though sometimes random and unrelated, wisdom. I already feel a piece of my heart missing and I fear it will never be clipped back together.

    Cue Cinderella's "Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone".