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.

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 ...

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 had been come to be known as the world’s most hated virtual assistant icon, the object of much scorn and ridicule. Well Microsoft obviously has trouble learning its lesson.

Clippy debuted to much fanfare in Microsoft Office 97 and appeared in other products, such as Microsoft Publisher. But the negative reaction to Clippy caused Microsoft to gradually phase him out.

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.

Also: Clippy is coming back to Windows and Microsoft Teams. The human-sized Clippy in the video posted on Twitter seems curiously sad-looking compared to the bubbly-looking Clippy on the ugly sweater.

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 ...