Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:11PM from the how-about-that dept.

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.

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Re:I've come to truly hate this world... by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-22 12:46 · Score: 1, Insightful

The vapid, nostalgia-driven reactions of the masses are to applaud things just because they remember them and not for what they represent.
Clippy was always fucking horrible.