This week at the Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella spent a lot of time talking up chat bots, robots that help you get stuff done through normal human conversations. But for those of us who ...

It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would say ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April ...

Microsoft's Greg Duncan noted the return of Clippy, the infamous cartoon paperclip that served as an assistant for users of the Office productivity software suite many years ago. "Eros Fratini ...

Clippy debuted with the release of Microsoft's Office 97 bundle. In 2001 Microsoft demoted the assistant. Now people can bring Clippy to the Mac if they so choose. Clippy, Microsoft's ...

Clippy may be the most reviled feature in the history of Microsoft, but the company may be adding a Clippy-like feature to the next version of Office. Will it be useful this time around? The Verge ...