Now, Microsoft is testing another virtual assistant. While it's not quite Clippy 2.0, the new Copilot Appearance experiment ...

Microsoft's new Copilot Appearance feature gives the AI assistant a visual, expressive character that aims to feel more like ...

"Clippy was quite the icon, and combining his quirky charm with modern AI capabilities could be an interesting twist. Maybe there'll be a way to blend the best of both worlds," Copilot responded.

In 2001, Clippy was replaced by other assistant tools, according to Verge. The character made a brief comeback in 2019 as part of a Microsoft Teams sticker pack, before abruptly disappearing again.

Microsoft has sneaked Clippy, one of its most beloved and hated characters, into the latest version of its mobile software. Recently, the Redmond, Wash., tech company unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 ...

Clippy was cute, like a cartoon dog, and had an intelligence to match. Perhaps the genuinely impressive tech underpinning ChatGPT could do what Clippy never could and offer, like ...

Clippy and Bob. Microsoft doesn’t do cute. It doesn’t do funny. It doesn’t do playful. If it were a shirt, it would be a buttoned-down Oxford, not a wild-and-crazy Hawaiian or a tie-dyed ...

Clippy is, after all, far more expressive than Cortana. While Clippy and Cortana share a tendency to reshape their basic form to meet the needs of the task at hand—Clippy can distort itself into ...

Clippy, you see, had been toiling away in Redmond for the past four years, first debuting in Office 97. Clippy's rise to productivity-suite stardom was sudden.

If you've ever used Microsoft Office, chances are you know Clippy. He's the animated paper clip who likes to pop up in the corner, often when you least expect him, offering some cheery tip about ...

Software giant Microsoft is laying off one of its most controversial employees: Clippy. The software help system, a long-despised feature of Microsoft's popular Office suite of business software ...

(CNN) - Microsoft is giving the decades-old virtual assistant Clippy a second life. Clippy debuted in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It got the boot ten years ...