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Office Guardian Angel Worse Than Clippy

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-never-knew-how-good-you-had-it dept.

ZWilder writes "Remember 'Clippy', the annoying anthropomorphic paper clip foisted upon unsuspecting users of Office? Well Microsoft has taken the concept behind Clippy and 'turned the dial up to 11' with its new, even more intrusive animated life-coach, known as 'Guardian Angel.' Patented in 2006, Guardian Angel is 'an intelligent personalized agent' that 'monitors and evaluates a user's environment to assist in decision-making processes on behalf of the user.' Like a manlier Fairy Godmother. Or a similarly omniscient HAL from '2001: A Space Oddysey.'"

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  1. Re:Obviously this is... by crymeph0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think Microsoft goes so far with its April Fool's jokes as to file an actual patent application.

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