Office Guardian Angel More Intrusive Than Clippy?

ZWilder writes: Remember "Clippy", the annoying anthropomorphic paper clip foisted upon unsuspecting users of Office? Well according to tech blog GigaOm, Microsoft has taken the concept behind Clippy and "turned the dial up to 11" with its new, even more intrusive animated life-coach, known as "Guardian Angel." Patented in 2006, Guardian Angel is "an intelligent personalized agent" that "monitors and evaluates a user's environment to assist in decision-making processes on behalf of the user." Like a manlier Fairy Godmother. Or a similarly omniscient HAL from "2001: A Space Oddysey."