Clippy Is Dead – REJOICE! With celebratory video!
February 10, 2007 by admin
Filed under Announcements, Desktops
The annoying Microsoft Office Assistant ‘Clippy’ which was no-doubt single-handedly responsible for 95% of Windows-To-Mac conversions these past 10, long, torturous Clippy lives, has now finally been killed in the latest re-incarnation of Office 2007. With the announcement, it’s my reckoning that Microsoft will see both it’s sales of Office 2007 & it’s shares rise dramatically over these coming weeks.
Clippy, you’ll be sorely missed. All those hours of right-clicking you only to press the ‘disable office assistant’, annoying as they were, played a major role in my life, up until 2003 when you were turned off of standard. That was a lifesaver. Now they’ve killed you? Nobody really cares.
It’ll take ten more years of Microsoft’s office attempts before I’ll ever forgive them to the horror that Clippy caused me… But you were loved…
Yeah… But perhaps ‘loved’ wouldn’t be the right word. Much as I like MS, I never did like you Clippy. Written by David Wilkinson from Techzi.net.
Dear Mr. Clippy,
Unlike some people in this sarcastic and rude computer world, I am in fact sad to see you go. We had some fun times together, pal. At school, you were the only one who stood by me at 4am when I felt alone and isolated, deep in the stacks of the library. During finals…..no matter how tired I got, you would always tap the glass, point to my paper, and encourage me to keep going. When I felt like the humor and life was being sucked from me and replaced with academic nonsense, I could always right click on you and laugh away at your animated and silly antics. High school, college, graduate school….you got me through some really boring and long days. I just want to say thanks for being there and that you will definitely be missed!