"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 ...

I sense a return of the dreaded and most-hated icon, Clippy. For those of us of a certain age, we remember when Microsoft first revealed Clippy the Paperclip to much fanfare and high hopes. (In truth, ...

Rob Girling, Artefact co-founder and joint CEO, with his wife Agnieszka, on the Faroe Islands. (Photo courtesy of Rob Girling) For those who remember Clippy — Microsoft Office’s animated paperclip ...

Baby boomer Bill Gates may remember the 1960s "Paul is dead" rumor that dogged Beatle Paul McCartney. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: Clippy's ...

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character ...