The Death of Clippy

AppScout interviews Office's Group Program Manager, Jensen Harris on the subject of Office 2007. Harris reveals that Clippy, the bane of all semi-sentient Office users everywhere, is officially dead. The decision apparently revolved not around the passionate hatred for the unfortunate sprite, but simply out of a desire for UI coherency.

Goodnight sweet prince

[Salsaman]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Clippy, the Microsoft assistant, was found dead in his Redmond, Seattle apartment this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

Clippy is NOT dead ...

[tomhudson]

"The rumours of my death are somewhat exaggerated."

Clippy is alive and well - he's been ported to linux so that we can hate him too ... http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ [sourceforge.net]

Moments from Clippy's life

[babbling]

I think the "I'm alright, thank you, fuck off" response pretty much sums it up... [youtube.com]

so long clippy

[torqer]

R.I.P.
rust in pieces.

Re:Goodnight sweet prince

[JamesTRexx]

I suggest we all shut down our pc's for a minute at noon tomorrow in remembrance of his death.

After which we all celebrate by installing *BSD and Linux. Clippy would have wanted it that way.

Hopefully...

[AndroidCat]

The death was not too quick or easy. [photobucket.com]

Clippy's Mental State

[pilsner.urquell]

The decision apparently revolved not around the passionate hatred for the unfortunate sprite, but simply out of a desire for UI coherency.

Yep, Clippy was definitely incoherent.

Re:Goodnight sweet prince

[10e6Steve]

He will be buried next to Microsoft Bob.

Enough! Clippy was the MAN!

[LibertineR]

Who stayed up with you that night and taught you how to import your old PST's into your new Outlook?

When you were pulling your hair out trying to expose the BCC field, who saved your ass?

Who taught a million admin-assists where to learn how to mail-merge?

ALRIGHT....I admit it.....Clippy was my......lover.

IS THAT SO WRONG?

Somebody took pictures of clippy's death...

[Spy der Mann]

It's kinda gross and gory, but ... *sniff* oh I can't say anything more! It was horrible! *SOB*

http://www.thenoobcomic.com.nyud.net:8090/daily/st rip089.html [nyud.net]

One of my Nightmares, Unillustrated

[ettlz]

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

"Hello! It looks like you're writing an article. Would you like me to:

• Prepare a set of subsections for you?
• Help you publish your work?
• Do a trick?"

"By Lamport's Beard! What are you doing here?!"

"Well, Microsoft chucked me out."

"How the hell did..."

"It's this Emacs thing — got a darn powerful LISP engine, you know. It's very roomy in here."

Meta-M doctor

"Oh, sorry, it's not that big. He's been evicted. Now, about that article—"

"Look... just... bugger off!" [Click!]

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[varg]{txfonts}

\begin{document}

"Hello! It looks like you're writing an document. Would you like me to:

• —"

"Sod off and die."

\author{The Holy ettlz}
\title{The Art of Paperclips}

"Oh."

"Yes, 'Oh'! Now get out of Emacs before I drag Donald E. Knuth himself over here."

"No need to get nasty. Hmmph."

A few hours later:

Integrate[1/Sqrt[x^3 - 2], x]

"Hello! It looks like you're trying to evaluate an integral. Would you like me to:

• Add limits?
• Draw a graph?
• Do a trick?

Oh, and by the way, it's very roomy in here!"

Who killed Clippy?

[rlp]

It was Steve Balmer in the library with a chair.

clippy lives in vi!

[eneville]

anyone seen the vi clippy? http://www.petebevin.com/archives/vim.gif [petebevin.com]

Re:Clippy: Do you need help with a post?

[ettlz]

GNAA to lun1x cocksuxx0rs goats

"Hello! It looks like you're trying to troll on Slashdot. Would you like me to:

• Insert a cut-and-paster about trying to run Quake 3 under Linux?
• Find a picture of Natalie Portman and order some hot grits?
• Help you do the Russian Reversal?
• Generate a permutation of the many *BSD/Goatse combos and accidentally forget the hyperlink?
• Do a trick?"

Re:Goodnight sweet prince

[jjeffries]

I heard he was found almost completely straightened out, stuck in the emergency eject hole of an old 4x CD-ROM drive... he'd also been receiving emails threatening that someone was going to "f***ing kill" him, yet they're calling it a suicide!

He will be interred next to his cousin Bob in the solid-gold family crypt.

It looks like you're trying to post to Slashdot...

[celardore]

Would you like help:

• Trolling
• Being interesting or informative
• Posting something obvious
• Flamebaiting
  

Drat, there's no help for being funny =(

So that's Office 2007 major new function?

[gelfling]

I'm sure the droids in Redmond think this is a quantum leap in functionality too.

The Tragedy of Prince Clippy ...

[KwKSilver]

It's far worse than the media are reporting. Rumors of Clippy's impending dismissal have been bubbling around for years, and they had finally started to wear the noble Clippy down. First he started stopping on the way home for a couple or three double shots. This made his wife, Tacki, suspicious and she started nagging about that and asking when he was finally gonna get a promotion. Well, he asked & they promised him the job that was ultimately given to Ozzi.

Folks tried to tell him not to count on it, but he ignored them, saying "Would Chair-boy lie to me? Never!" When that news broke, so did Clippy. Lots of double-, and triple-shots, and he was occasionally found wandering around "the Campus" with a bottle of Muscatel in a bag, mumbling incoherently, "To C# or not to C#, that ..." or chanting a strange mantra, "Longhorn, Lamehorn, Foghorn-Leghorn." Treatments didn't help. Eventually, Tacki ran off with with a stapler and his son Gui ended up smoking crack and huffing glue. The final straw, was when his beloved, musically gifted daughter, Bandi, got a "Theo is my Hero" tatoo and joined the OpenBSD project to write theme-songs and documentation. Poor guy, his intentions were really good, and he tried so damn hard.

Clippy Cartoons :-)

[mrcgran]

Clippy Goes Undercover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCv8ru3L98 [youtube.com]

Clippy Gets Clipped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB03aRifPLU [youtube.com]

Clippy faces facts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMShkAZR1-Q&NR [youtube.com]

Re:Clippy did its job... Unfortunatly.

[Skater]

I think what bugs me most about Clippy these days is that one of my coworkers uses Word with it turned on...and her speakers turned up. Way up.

So every time she saves a file, I hear: "*click* *clank* *ker-chunk*"

Yes, she's quite inconsiderate about making noise - all day I hear "AAHAAHHHH! I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE GETS ANYTHING DONE AROUND HERE!!" (referring to the amount of email she gets), and similar things. Yeah, thanks for spreading the disruption around, lady.

My boss is no help - well, more correctly, she sympathizes, but she also realizes that we're never going to be able to change this woman's behavior, so the rest of us have to suffer or use headphones and turn the music WAY up to drown out her rantings.

She and Clippy deserve each other.

Don't go, Clippy

[Lazerf4rt]

Sure, it's easy to only remember the bad times. But who among us can honestly say we won't miss him? His knowing winks, his cute little antics. His sage, though sometimes random and unrelated, wisdom. I already feel a piece of my heart missing and I fear it will never be clipped back together.

Cue Cinderella's "Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone".

Nice try...

[Anonymous Coward]

But we know they don't have Clue over at Microsoft :-)

Re:Clippy did its job... Unfortunatly.

[mooingyak]

I had to deal with a woman like that once. Fortunately she was also wildly incompetent so she got fired eventually.

Re:Goodnight sweet prince

[Brad1138]

For 1 minute on Sunday the percentage of /.ers enjoying the outdoors increased 10,000%

Re:Oh, NOW...

[edxwelch]

> How on Earth did this get past the supposedly rigorous user-testing facility that Microsoft has?

Mircrosoft secretly used the same user-testing system as the GIMP project.

Ding-dong...

[TFGeditor]

...the witch is dead, the witch is dead!
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead...