Comments on: The Secret Origins of Clippy: Microsoft’s Bizarre Animated Character Patents

By: Microsoft Patents 3-D Desktop to Compete With Apple « Terry Olgin's Blog

Microsoft Patents 3-D Desktop to Compete With Apple « Terry Olgin's Blog — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:53:51 +0000

[...] The illustrations that accompany the patent look less like something out of a Hollywood movie (or a futuristic Mark Coleran interface) and more like the Office Space-ish alternate dimension that birthed Clippy. [...]

By: Videos: Boyfriends, Star Wars, and Office 2010 Just Add Water …

Videos: Boyfriends, Star Wars, and Office 2010 Just Add Water … — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:59:52 +0000

[...] the less, we watched it a couple of times and now we are spreading the virus. That and we are glad Clippy is [...]

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5 Ways to Improve the new Twitter App | Mike Industries — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:09:12 +0000

[...] The “who to follow” feature is really well done, and I like it, but what about a Clippy-like presence in my tweet stream using a bit of artificial intelligence to suggest more people to [...]

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Fairportfan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:17:48 +0000

I started work doing phone support for NEC the day that Windows 95 went live. We were all signally underwhelmed by Bob.

One of my friends who worked there seemed to get the majority of calls from French-Canadians.

One day he got one from a guy whose system had apparently locked up; when Bill asked for a description of the symptoms, the answer was “The little dog – his tail she don’ wag no more.”

(Incidentally, on the subject of poorly-thought-out ideas, in one of his books, Scott Adams talks about the major company where the marketing division had collective apoplexy when the word got out that the engineering division had used the codenames “Ren” and “Stimpy” for their new flagship products. Those were the codenames for, respectively, the new desktop and tower machines that NEC introduced in late ’95…)

By: What do the Virtual Boy, Tamagotchis, and Farmville have in common? « Level Up

Mon, 31 May 2010 08:41:49 +0000

[...] included Betamax, asbestos, Pop-Up Ads, and Red Dye #2. Also, both Microsoft Bob and Clippy the worst paperclip of all time make well-deserved [...]

By: Top 25 Tech Quotes « Cenetric, Inc.

Top 25 Tech Quotes « Cenetric, Inc. — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:08:09 +0000

[...] it’s notable: Clippy is the most reviled of multiple Microsoft attempts to popularize anthropomorphic helpers, and “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” is his most infamous [...]