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Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day (engadget.com)
The dream of the '90s was alive in Microsoft Teams this week when Microsoft's old office assistant, Clippy, showed up. From a report: If you used Microsoft Office between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember Clippy as the animated paperclip that popped up and offered tips for using the software. Microsoft did away with Clippy in 2001, so people were surprised to see Clippy stickers appear in Microsoft Teams this week. And they were even more surprised when, just a day later, Microsoft offed the little guy again. On Tuesday, Clippy appeared as an animated pack of stickers for Microsoft Teams. The stickers were released on the Office Developer GitHub page, but by the next day, they had vanished. Clippy was around just long enough to rally old fans, and there's now a user petition to bring Clippy back.
"there's now a user petition to bring Clippy back."
This kind of stuff. Every single bit of "news" these days...
The absolute best "add-on" for Microsoft Orifice spun up a sledgehammer to close "Clippy". Each time clippy got hit by the hammer he got a little more bent out of shape until eventually he was "afraid" to pop up anymore ...
All most as good as xroaches ...
We remember.
”Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day”
Don’t be selfish - there are a lot of us who’d LOVE to share in the pleasure of killing the bastard!
#DeleteChrome
Mueller's report is in. No collusion. No more indictments.
Slashdot would have posted the story already but the Liberals who submit the stories are too busy crying into their craft soda.
In More Important News:
Some fuck at M$ is trying to groundswell desire for a stupid feature that didn't add one iota of productivity to begin with.
except he popped up every time i had food near me
creimy would show up with his watery insect eyes and sucking lips and ask "are you going to finish that"
it scared the hell out of the kids
it looks like the naked man in the park they screamed
According to a report from The Verge, Clippy disappeared from both locations just a day after being introduced at the behest of what one source called the 'brand police.'
Another take on it.
Best Clippy quote: "Perhaps it is the file which exists and you do not."
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
It looks like you're trying to avoid plummeting into the ground.
Would you like me to:
Shove the nose down
Shove the nose even further down
Say it was pilot error
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Clippy doesnt need to be revived its just had a gender crisis and renamed to Cortana, same logic is there though, a douchebag decision tree based on Eliza concepts of NLP but presented in a condescending way while it rifles through your companies secrets to see if a 2bit middleman they designate can sell you Chinese trinkets with a "but its designed in USA" sticker plastered onto it.
There's arxiv breakthroughs in quantum algorithms and here the editors post clippy tripe. What the fuck happened to this site? Was it it dice that ruined it? Slashdot beta? Did the old guard just die off?
The Fluent UI is a convoluted pile of garbage.
Where's the petition to not bring Clippy back? Or better yet, the petition to delete any and all code related to Clippy? I'll sign one or both of those.
Always coming back in your face. Clippy. Socialism. Everything that sucks.
The only creature more evil than Clippy was Barney. What insane person would want to revive either nightmare?
Whaaaaaaat?? microsoft teams?? I hadn't heard of this hip Microsoft product offering before! And what a beloved 90s touchstone, beloved corporate mascot, clippy. I for one am going to rush to sign this petition to let Microsoft know how much they better bring back these emojis to their corporate groupware!
Clippy was annoying, but one of the other options was a claymation Einstein. That one was OK. There was also something else, but I don't remember what it was.
I refuse to sign
Why all the hate? I quite liked Clippy, it was adding a humanizing touch to the document editing. And I remember it being useful when I was starting to use MS Office.
Reminds me of that episode of the sitcom Becker, where Dr. Becker's secretary books him a trip on a gay couple's cruise (Becker wasn't gay). The trip did not go well.
Upon his return from the trip, he quietly informs the secretary, "I am going to kill you. I will use my powers as a physician to bring you back to life. And then, I will kill you again."
Microsoft discovered that the coder last name was Dyson and pulled the plug at the last minute.
Really. What impact does this have on anybody's life here?
Instead of resurrecting Clippy, how about porting the much newer and better Vigor?
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
Surely porting Vigor to Word would be better - both as an endoresement of OpenSource software and on the technical merits.
This is why Microsoft never should have been allowed to buy Github. Microsoft can do anything they want with your code and files on Github. You can never be sure whether your files will stay intact on Github, whether your code will be "incorporated" by Microsoft into one of their competing projects, or even whether Microsoft will just shut down your project on Github, removing all traces of it, just because it competes with a similar Microsoft project.
...to not bring Clippy back? Eager signer here.
We'll make great pets
Melt him into a slug of metal and use that to make something useful.
Their behavior changes at random, and there is nothing you can do about it.
As annoying as clippy is nostalgically remembered, the level of annoyance of 90's clippy is nothing compared to the forced-to-watch helpful crap that the majority of websites and apps force on us today.
-Overlays on half the websites that tell you to "Enter your email address to receive updates and special coupons "
-Websites asking "Do you accept the use of cookies?"
-Terribly designed mobile webites that contain a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version
-Terribly designed mobile apps that contain just a fraction of the functionality of the desktop website version
-Websites that refuse to load the desktop version on your mobile device even when you specifically request it.
-Links to websites that when clicked ask "View in App because because it's a better experience?"
-Applications that pop up a reminder 15 times a day to let you know that there is a new update.
I would glady accept clippy popping up every couple of hours asking "Hey, it looks like you are writing a letter?", or 90's web frames, or even the 90's tag if it meant getting rid of the dozens of contemporary 2019 "Clippy's" I run into every day.
We want clippy and all sourcecode relating to him, including the 3d files for the clippy renders made available. The other avatars like the dog would be nice too, but with clippy source code we would finally create a viral AI to help solve the population crisis the world over! :)
I'm so conflicted. Bringing Clippy back was wrong in so many ways, but if it was just to kill it again... almost but not quite justifies it.
There are no "old fans" of Clippy. The only people who might be "fans" barely remember him from back when they were still in diapers, seeing him on mommy & daddy's computers. No one old enough to have actually used MS Office in those years is a "fan" of the little bastard, just neo-hipsters looking at it as retro kitsch.
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Microsoft should change its name to Megahard, but that would sound too much like a porn name. Oh wait...
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
You call that a topic sentence? And what's with all the commas, Nathaniel?
Back in college, I used to purposefully load the dog Office Assistant when I was writing late-night papers on my computer. Seeing that cartoon dog was encouraging when you're all alone at 4 am trying to finish a paper!
Originally, Clippy was just a stick-man...
The developer's showed it to Bill Gates and he said "change this", "change this"..."and change this"...
By the time the developer's finished, the stick man had its head so far up its ass that it turned into a paper-clip.