![]() He stopped users to ask them if they needed help with basic tasks, like writing a letter or making a spreadsheet. Surely somewhere “Clippy,” as most know him, frolics still, winking at odd intervals, randomly interrupting the Prince of Persia to ask if he needs help writing a letter.Ĭlippy is famous for being one of the worst user interfaces ever deployed to the mass public. And he finally departed this digital veil in 2007, when Microsoft Office dismissed him all together. He went into retirement two years later, when he was turned off by default. He was refined three years later, in Microsoft Office 2000. ![]() ![]() He (and he is the right pronoun for this particular mindless bundle of code, but more on that in a moment) was introduced in November 1996. ![]()
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