While a couple of Easter eggs hidden in Office 97 applications are relatively well known, X (formerly Twitter) user Albacore ...

Microsoft Office 97 came out in the fall of 1996, and nearly thirty years later one software enthusiast with an eye for ...

Microsoft has added Clippy into Microsoft Teams as part of a sticker pack. “Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement! Whether you loved him or hated him, Clippy is back with a Retro Sticker Pack in ...

"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 ...

Gordon Freeman. Doomguy. Guybrush Threepwood. Clippy. Okay, so our list of iconic characters on PC gets a bit weird if you start including software mascots, but Clippy was an inescapable part of ...

Microsoft's Clippy, the cartoon paperclip helper, might come back as an emoji, the company said. More than 320,000 users across Twitter and Instagram have said they want to bring Clippy back. Clippy ...

If you used Microsoft years ago, you may remember Clippy, an animated paperclip with big eyebrows and even bigger eyes. The tool was established in 1997, developing lovers and haters alike, as he ...

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 ...

Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...

Microsoft has sneaked Clippy, one of its most beloved and hated characters, into the latest version of its mobile software. Recently, the Redmond, Wash., tech company unveiled Windows Phone 8.1 and ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on May 29, 2012 at 10:29 ...

Baby boomer Bill Gates may remember the 1960s "Paul is dead" rumor that dogged Beatle Paul McCartney. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: Clippy's ...