The day has finally come, no longer will you have a friendly paper clip
constantly offering to help make your document creating experience better.
No more will you see a bouncing piece of bent metal with googly eyes bouncing at
the corner of your screen, begging you to let it help fix the formatting, or
suggest a particular word. Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant, has
been put to rest. His smiling visage will no longer greet us when writing
a letter. The Microsoft Office team confirmed that with 2007, Clippy is
officially done and gone. Starting life in 1997 with Office 97, he was a
constant annoyance to document users for nearly a full decade.
App Scout has an interview with the Office Group Program Manager at Microsoft
to chat a bit about the timely demise of one of the most annoying "features"
ever to be added to Office.
Clippy, 1997 - 2007. RIP