I need you to leave me the hell alone. This was me in Microsoft Word all day, every day: Thanks to a third-party developer named "yoman821," you can now make your lives so much worse by downloading ...

The paper clip, or "Clippit" as it was named, used to be the default Office Assistant in Microsoft Word for Windows. Its purpose is to offer help and advice to users. Due to the negative response to ...

Microsoft Office announced Tuesday that it's moving on from Clip Art, the image service that proved oh-so-popular in many a school paper and work presentation for years: "The Office.com Clip Art and ...

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 Office ...

It was the original virtual assistant, released years before Siri, Alexa, and Bixby. Now, almost two decades after it was axed, Microsoft's Clippy is officially back. The friendly anthropomorphic ...