Not too long after MobileESPN
breathed new life, now we've got the
unfortunate duty of informing the world that
Microsoft finally axed the most annoying aspect of Office has decided to leave "Clippy" behind in
Office 2007. We suspected something was brewing when the iconic figure started
donning a 3D skirt in Japan, but a brief interview with Office's group program manager revealed that the clip is indeed dead. While it had been fading for awhile due to an apparent lack of mass fanfare, and was even turned off by default in Office 2003, it seems that Clippy fans will be forced to stick with now-antiquated versions of the Office suite in order to keep their darling on screen. But don't fret too much, as the countdown until someone crafts a freeware app re-instilling a Clippy rendition into Office begins... now.
[Via
ChipChick]
posted Feb 9th 2007 3:26PM
You're fuckin asshole bitches! Clippy was amazing, and now he's dead! A fuckin' punk kill him, but I'll bring Clippy to life again! I'll buy some paper-clip, I'll scarf them, and I'll patch the fragments of them. I'll make Clippy as Frankeinstein, and he will take a vengeance on his MURDER!!! REVENGE!!!
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For some bitches: I was just jocking. :) I miss you Clippy forever, rest in peace! :(
The cat was better!
I will mourn you clippy, however anoying you were, we still loved you
Oh NOES!!1
This is a worthless article. Who cares.
That's the second death in 2 days of a person or a thing on my patented "Incredibly Annoying People/Things List" ; I guess it has more power than I thought.
rip
Good riddens!
THEY KILLED KENNY! CLIPPY!
Oh goodness, he was only what, ten years old?how sad...I never really knew him because i replaced him with the wizard helper...oh well. I'm sure some sadistic programmer will be sure to dream up a new clippy you can put in, with control over what it says.
RESSURECT CLIPPY!
Boo hoo, oh hoho , that little guy was like the annoying little brother I wish i never had. Of only Microsoft brought him in Vista....wait is he in Vista?
idk
*sniffle*
oooooooooooo noooooooooooooooooo
you killed clippy you basters
you will pay for this.
Clippy will always live on in my favorite version of Windows.
http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/
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"Bring back that loving feeling
Oh, that loving feeling
Bring back that loving feeling
Now it's gone...gone...gone...
And I can't go on...
No-oh-oh..."
THANK JEEBUS. That little bastard almost singlehandedly made me switch to Macs back in the day.
Why don't they use Dwight Schrute's floating head instead? That would be so much more awesome.
amen to that. Clippy Sxucks. i hated him the day i saw him
Apparently putting a < symbol breaks things here. I said:
Your HTML in the article breaks the link to the Clippy 3D skirt article. "<a rhef"?
It's here:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/microsofts-clippy-putting-on-a-3d-skirt-in-japan/
w00t!
I wouldn't mind Clippy much if he was a Japanese girl in a skirt.
Maybe MS should think about importing the Japanese Office to America.
That just decided it..... I'm not buying Office 2007. Of all the Office Assistants, why MURDER Clippit (that was his name in Office XP), he was a SIMPLE HELPLESS PAPER CLIP!!!
now if they could kill those damn yellow balloons. I LIKE my unused desktop icons, thank you.
accept/deny?
ohh clippy... I think this sums it up:
http://www.holylemon.com/PaperClip.html
why!!!! For god sake no!!! You MS bastards!!! How could you!!
Why kill off Clippy? He was amusing. And sorta helpful. Eh, at least as far as I can remember...Oh well. I'm too poor to buy the newest office.
If only Windows RG had gone retail I'm sure it would've been a hit...at least we still have our Clippy there. :-(
From this day forward every fiber of my being, every bone in my body, every word I speak will be dedicated to making MS pay for killing clippy.
It may not be today, it may not be tommorrow, it may not be next year, but rest assurred Microsoft YOU WILL PAY, and pay dearly!!
Just Kidding - Good Riddance...
I hope the bastard caught rectal-cancer of the mouth and died choking. Burn in hell, Clippy, burn.
oh glorious day!!
I heard that he ran off with that filmstrip dude from AMC movies.
I will never forget the day my colleague returned to his computer to find his Clippy with a dialog balloon saying, "Die, you gravy sucking pig!"
Clippy was so fu*king stupid. I remember writing my 250+ page manual for a training seminar that I was doing. (In irony of ironies, it was a class for using Solaris, but I dguress..)
I was on page 80 describing how to perform a certain function. So, I typed, "To do {such-and-such}:" and that god-damned hellspawn popped up.
"It looks like you're writing a letter!"
WHAT THE...??! I'm on page 80, you stupid sh*t! How the hell could it POSSIBLY look like I'm writing a letter?!!
Good riddance, and may the morons who thought that it was a good idea to introduce Clippy get a boil on their collective asses.
actually... his name is clippit, not clippy (in Office 2003). c'mon!
He's a hard guy to kill they already had a whole campaign around this back in Spring 2001:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/apr01/04-11clippy.mspx
http://www.shellen.com/2001/04/microsoft-has-sense-of-humor-after-all.asp
I'll miss you... ):
Buh Bye to the Jar-Jar Binks of Redmond
The funniest thing i ever saw was a picture of a guy writing a suicide note on Microsoft Office and Clippy popping up and saying "So I see you've decided to kill yourself?"
RIP? Hardly. I hope it rots in eternal suffering. Disabling it was always the first thing I'd do after installing office.
Oh wow, I never thought MSFT would ever get rid of their, less than revered, spokes-thingy.
Oh no, Clippy. You don't get off that easy.
I'm not with you yet! You hear! This ain't over by a long shot!
I will have my revenge. I'm here in Redmond, WA. now. They must have buried you around here someplace and buddy, I'm packin a full bladder.
Note to self: Must adjust meds.
He isn't really dead yet. He still lives in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac. Now if they kill him off in the next version for the Mac, then he will be really dead, but he's on his last leg of his life right now.
Make your own clippy
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/agent.mspx
Why couldn't they kill the stupid puzzle. I love Clippy! He's like my little buddy when I am doing reports in Word or when I am emailing/using calendar in Outlook!
I ♥ Clippy.
I Hate Microsoft.
I hope they bent Clippy back and forth till he broke in two. I'm all for taking my frustrations on the programing since clubbing the actual programer is illegal...
Clippy is not dead! He's been reborn as the Form Assistant in Dynamics CRM. Just as useless, but he's more persistent now. He won't let you hide him.
Paybacks baby!
Praise the Gods.
First Anna Nicole Smith and NOW CLIPPY?!?!?!!? I give up. Life is just too bleak now.
Dam you Microsoft I WANT CILPPY,
I will stay with Office 2003 until the end I will never upgrade NEVER!!!!
I hope Bill Gates is reading this, We want CILPPY We want CILPPY We want CILPPY We want CILPPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does the Mac version of Office have Cilppy?
Oh man. I created Clippy those many years ago. He has opened many doors for me even though he annoyed hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis. People knew who he was and that is what counted. I actully got trickles of fan mail over the years . . .
You know they told us he was gone when XP came out too. He was just hidden.
rip
Finally! A reason to buy Office 2007! Up until now I was stumped in my search for a reason to upgrade to either Vista or Office 2007.
I've missed the genius one for years...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aXzMuYN7U