"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...

In case you missed it, likely by being born too late, "Clippy" was arguably Microsoft's first virtual assistant. In operation from Microsoft Office 97 to Office 2007, Clippy popped up in Microsoft ...