Thanks for all the memories and memes Clippy. Here’s a taste of the fun animations included in the Clippy sticker pack. This feature will appear later this year, alongside a bunch of new inventive additions to make Slack users jealous. Microsoft has now killed the GitHub project associated with Clippy for Microsoft Teams, and Clippy is once again searching for a new job. Microsoft often responds to direct feedback from its uservoice sites, and the top request right now is for private channels in Microsoft Teams. If you want to see Clippy return as a sticker messaging pack, you can vote for it right here. There’s still hope, though.Ĭlippy fans have started a petition of sorts to restore its star role in Microsoft Teams. Clippy was born in 1987, the only success in a series of failed experiments to give sentience to various office supplies. It looks like I’m writing a memorial piece, and dear God, would I like some help.
Microsoft has now killed the GitHub project associated with Clippy for Microsoft Teams, and Clippy is once again searching for a new job. McGowan Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of Clippy, Microsoft Word’s helpful and beloved cartoon paper clip. “While we appreciate the effort, we have no plans to bring Clippy to Teams.”Ī source familiar with the situation at Microsoft tells The Verge that the “brand police” inside the company weren’t happy that Clippy had appeared in Microsoft Teams, and immediately ordered the brutal firing of the anthropomorphic paperclip. Many people remember his smug little smile with a helping of positive nostalgia. “Clippy has been trying to get his job back since 2001, and his brief appearance on GitHub was another attempt,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. Clippy was killed-off eventually, along with his posse of other animated helpers, but his influence remained strong. Unfortunately, Clippy disappeared a day later, vanishing once again into the deep Microsoft archives. These stickers were then released on Microsoft’s official Office developer GitHub page earlier this week, free for any Microsoft Teams users to import and use them for fun. Microsoft resurrected Clippy on Tuesday, transforming the paperclip into an animated pack of stickers for the company’s Teams chat software.
The Genius was an Einstein-esque icon Power Pup was a dog that could help you. Clippy has been trying to find a job at Microsoft ever since, and this week it looked like the loveable paperclip was back for good. Although Clippy received the brunt of criticism, he wasn’t the only Office mascot available to distract and annoy. While Clippy lived a rather short and eventful life until Office XP in 2001, Microsoft killed off its Office Assistant in favor of new Office features like smart tags and task panes. While Halo Infinite's Season 2 adds new maps, modes, a Battle Pass, and more, perhaps the least expected addition is the inclusion of Clippy, the 25-year-old Microsoft Office assistant. Often misunderstood, you either loved or hated its soulful eyes and “Groucho eyebrows” (as Microsoft described them) when it popped up on screen to please or annoy you. Born in Office 97, Clippy politely offered hints for using Microsoft’s Office software.