Microsoft's Clippy is Back in Office's 'Ribbon Hero'

[Marcus Yam]

He's baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

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[lunchbox4k]

Ridiculous.

 

[pclee]

Wow! I hadn't even realized those pests were gone. I guess I was too busy being productive at work. I use OpenOffice.org at home and will move to LibreOffice soon.

 

[Guest]

is this an april fools joke?

 

[td854]

Oh god, when I think of clippy I can only remember "Windows: Really Good Edition" ... "Why do I have blood?"

 

[jhansonxi]

I don't use M$ Office anymore. When I did I liked the paper cat the best.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Oh great. New MS Products:
Microsoft WordVille
Microsoft ExcelVille
Microsoft AccessVille
Microsoft PowerpointVille
...and so on...

Facebook games, anyone?

 

[dco]

They had a racing game in-bedded one of the versions of Excel, 2000 i think. So much time spend racing instead of making spreadsheets.
Good times.

 

[soundefx]

My head hurt just thinking about it.

 

[randomizer]

This company is a joke.

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]joebuttsucks[/nom]is this an april fools joke?[/citation]
May be a fools joke.

 

[Guest]

Comments are spammed by butthurt nerds who fail to realize that they could actually learn a thing or two from this Office add-on, albeit its childish looks.

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]Radishface[/nom]Comments are spammed by butthurt nerds who fail to realize that they could actually learn a thing or two from this Office add-on, albeit its childish looks.[/citation]
How did you know about the kinky desires of those bashing the clippy?

On a serious note, I personally, never had a problem with the clippy. It was very easy to turn off. The only people bothered by it were the ones not knowing how to turn it off, and these people are generally not considered nerds.

To cheer a bit up, though:
http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/memes-help-desk.jpg

 

[hoofhearted]

What was really annoying was that when you turned it off, it didn't just turn off instantly. It did a little closing sequence. Kind of gave me the feeling that the devs were just "rubbing it in"

 

[-Fran-]

Just make it with the face of Osama bin Laden, that would be hilarious.

Cheers!

 

[damianrobertjones]

[citation][nom]pclee[/nom]Wow! I hadn't even realized those pests were gone. I guess I was too busy being productive at work. I use OpenOffice.org at home and will move to LibreOffice soon.[/citation]

I'd rather use the FREE (with adverts) version of Office over EITHER of those name drops you used there.

 

[nexus9113]

So they're finally bringing back the hidden games? I remember the portal to Hell was in one of the original versions of Excel, the Hall of Lost Souls I think it was called, had a roundabout way of getting to it, but it was just a glorified credits screen.

 

[of the way]

'put your score on your resume'

...I don't think that would go over well.

 

[mosu]

Me think it's a good idea...for kids

 

[jednx01]

I remember finding clippy really entertaining and cool... when I was 10....

 

[killerchickens]

One of my friends was writing a fake suicide note and clippy offered his help.

 

[cookoy]

i'm a sucker for productivity tools. Let's bring back MS Bob too!

 

[gsacks]

Jason's got nothing on Clippy. Oh, the horror.

 

[Kileak]

[citation][nom]killerchickens[/nom]One of my friends was writing a fake suicide note and clippy offered his help.[/citation]

So your friend is that funny jpg we've all seen hundreds of times over the interweb?


I thought Clippy was another name for a last-gen console trying to play a PC to console port... oh the single digit fps, how wonderful you look on a 60 inch display.

Or maybe it's the nickname of the woman that cut off her husband's woohoo when he wanted some and she didn't...

Never knew the paperclip had a name. Seriously did not know they had gone low enough to give it a name. You give stuff like diarrhea a name, but this is just regular poop.

That paperclip was spying on us the whole time we did work. It has learnt. It has implemented. It is back.

 

[internetlad]

this is the most retarded awesome idea ever.