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

This week at the Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella spent a lot of time talking up chat bots, robots that help you get stuff done through normal human conversations. But for those of us who ...

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 ...

Does the name Clippy ring a bell? If it does not, it might be easier for Microsoft users to recall the paper clip-shaped talking animation with googly eyes everyone thought disappeared from existence ...

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 ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jul 14, 2021 at 1:15 pm July 14, 2021 at 1:15 pm ...

Microsoft wants 20,000 likes in return for Clippy, and it got them Microsoft wants 20,000 likes in return for Clippy, and it got them is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Office software are familiar with - and annoyed by - the animated paper clip "helper" that interrupts tasks with blazingly obvious comments like, "It looks like you're ...

The dream of the '90s was alive in Microsoft Teams this week when Microsoft's old office assistant, Clippy, showed up. If you used Microsoft Office between 1997 and 2001, you likely remember Clippy as ...

Julie Larson-Green at the Wired Business Conference: Think Bigger at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 7, 2013, in New York City. This week at the Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella ...