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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. Great... by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    (User browsing some good porn.)

    Guardian Angel: "It looks like you're breaking some commandments!"

  2. Re:Obviously this is... by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not? The current patent system reminds me of one big April fools joke.

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  3. Re:Obviously this is... by dudpixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    offtopic i know:

    At first glance it looked like Microsoft didn’t have an april fools joke on their website today...

    But then I saw this:

    Internet Explorer 8 - faster, safer and easier than ever

    Well done Microsoft. You got me.

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    This seemed like a reasonable sig at the time.