![]() ![]() AdvertisementĮnlarge / The Clippy sticker pack in Teams.Ĭlippy is, after all, far more expressive than Cortana. Teams, an interface that's conversational and text heavy, is the perfect venue for a new Clippy compliant with all the buzzwords of the late twenty-teens. With its various machine learning-powered services and its bot development framework, Microsoft finally has the technology to make Clippy the assistant we always wanted him to be: a Clippy that can be asked natural language questions, that we can actually speak to and that can talk back to us, that can recognize us by sight and greet us as we sit down to the working day. The synergy between the two seems obvious. Teams users could import the stickers and use them to add pictures of a talking paperclip to their conversations. We asked ourselves what we could do to help users find features" with the least amount of confusion.On Microsoft's official Office GitHub repository (which contains, alas, not the source code to Office itself but lots of developer content for software that extends Office), the widely loved (?) Clippy made a brief appearance with the publication of a Clippy sticker pack for Microsoft Teams. This is definitely in response to user feedback. "We think Office has so many new features for making it easier to use that Clippy is no longer useful. Lisa Gurry, a Microsoft Office product manager, said Clippy has lived a useful life but is no longer needed. I have tried several of the variations of the 'animated helper,' but I have found them all too annoying to leave on," Mizera wrote. "Every time I have to install or reinstall Office the first thing I do on each application is turn off Clippy. When they were introduced I thought Microsoft was trying to save face from Bob's dismal acceptance by moving a key piece of technology into the professional products," wrote Steve Mizera, a systems engineer in Silverado, California. "These guys seem to be a legacy from Microsoft Bob. Other Office customers agreed and wondered if Clippy was related to another, much-reviled Microsoft helper. "In less time than it took MS to put this Web site together, they could have pulled the dumb clip out of their software." Not even my wife, who is an elementary school teacher, uses it," Ketan Deshpande, senior software engineer at, wrote in an e-mail to. ![]() "Not one person in my office, from the receptionist to the sales people to the engineers to the CEO use the blasted paper clip. Office customers are wondering why the Redmond, Washington-based company took so long to give Clippy the boot. In Office XP, Microsoft plans to hide the Clippy character tool from view and help people in a less obtrusive manner. Microsoft is hoping to appeal to customers with a less-obtrusive, easier to use version of the suite. For Microsoft, Office is an extremely important product: its sales make up more than one-third of the company's overall revenue. The site is part of a $30m (£20m) marketing and advertising campaign launched to promote Office XP, which Microsoft is expected to launch this summer.
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