It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

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Microsoft Copilot will eventually bring ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat features to Windows 11 PCs, but you don't have to wait that long to try a ChatGPT app on your laptop or desktop. A developer brought ...

"It's probably the most annoying innovation Microsoft has added to Office in years," was one of the more polite descriptions of Microsoft's animated Office assistant, which first reared its ...

"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...

If you miss the Clippy days of Windows, then I’ve got good news for you. Software company FireCube has resurrected Clippy and infused it with the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. FireCube’s take on Clippy ...

I sense a return of the dreaded and most-hated icon, Clippy. For those of us of a certain age, we remember when Microsoft first revealed Clippy the Paperclip to much fanfare and high hopes. (In truth, ...

Microsoft has published a selection of new backgrounds for collaboration service Teams that are bound to give long-term fans a potent hit of nostalgia. The subjects of the new Teams backgrounds ...