Clippy lives again as a software developer brings the Microsoft assistant to the Mac

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Clippy lives again as a software developer brings the Microsoft assistant to the Mac
September 9, 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/microsoft-clippy-assistant-comes-to-macos-on-github.html

Clippy, Microsoft’s love-it-or-hate-it virtual assistant that debuted in the 1990s, has come back to life as a free application for Apple’s MacOS.

Devran “Cosmo” Ünal, senior product engineer at optics company Zeiss Group, released the software on the Microsoft-owned GitHub code-storage website last week, and it has drawn attention quickly.

“So much fun!” Steven Sinofsky, an Andreessen Horowitz investor and former Microsoft executive who was involved in Clippy’s development, commented on a post about the software on Product Hunt, a forum for discussions on new digital creations.
Clippy, which was originally designed on a Mac, came to be known more than two decades ago as a feature called Office Assistant, bundled into Microsoft’s Office 97 for Windows and Office 98 for Mac.

Some people found the Office assistants to be disruptive, though. The New York Times called Clippy “annoying to the point of distraction.”

“Clippy is flattered by the attention, but has no plans to come out of retirement,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email on Monday.
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