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.

Clippy, however, was deliberately, er, helpful, and will probably remain so. Clippy by Firecube, though a free app, does require an API key, a token that identifies you and links to your account.

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.

Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the boot by ...

Microsoft resurrected Clippy on Tuesday, transforming the paperclip into an animated pack of stickers for the company’s Teams chat software. These stickers were then released on Microsoft’s ...

Clippy, Microsoft Word's perpetually upbeat '90s paperclip, is a joke. An embarrassment. A mercifully discarded relic of the distant past. An ugly sweater. I know that, and I'm sure you know that ...

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 interrupted you, but Alexa and Siri only show up when you call. They analyze and sort your photos and email in the background. They don’t announce themselves.

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 ...