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The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office for Windows (versions 97 to 2003), in Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Project (versions 98 to 2003), Microsoft FrontPage (versions 2002 and 2003), and Microsoft Office for Mac (versions 98 to 2004).

The default assistant in the English version was named Clippit (commonly nicknamed Clippy, despite this name never having been used in Microsoft Office), after a paperclip.^[1][2] The character was designed by Kevan J. Atteberry.^[2][3] Clippit was the default and by far the most notable Assistant (partly because in many cases the setup CD was required to install the other assistants), which also led to it being called simply the Microsoft Paperclip.^[4] The original Clippit from Office 97 was given a new look in Office 2000.

The feature drew a strongly negative response from many users.^[5][6] Microsoft turned off the feature by default in Office XP, acknowledging its unpopularity in an ad campaign spoofing Clippit.^[7] The feature was removed altogether in Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac, as it continued to draw criticism even from Microsoft employees.

In July 2021, Microsoft used Twitter to show off a redesign of Clippit (which they called «Clippy» in the Tweet), and said that if it received 20,000 likes they would replace the paperclip emoji on Microsoft 365 with the character.^[8] The Tweet quickly surpassed 20,000 likes and they then announced to replace it.^[9][10] In November 2021, Microsoft officially updated their design of the paperclip emoji (📎) on Windows 11 to be Clippit/»Clippy».^[11]

Overview[edit]

According to Alan Cooper, the «Father of Visual Basic», the concept of Clippit was based on a «tragic misunderstanding» of research conducted at Stanford University, showing that the same part of the brain in use while using a mouse or keyboard was also responsible for emotional reactions while interacting with other human beings and thus is the reason people yell at their computer monitors.^[12] Microsoft concluded that if humans reacted to computers the same way they react to other humans, it would be beneficial to include a human-like face in their software.^[12] As people already related to computers directly as they do with humans, the added human-like face emerged as an annoying interloper distracting the user from the primary conversation.^[12]

First introduced in Microsoft Office 97,^[13] the Office Assistant was codenamed TFC during development.^[14] It appeared when the program determined the user could be assisted by using Office wizards, searching help, or advising users on using Office features more effectively. It also presented tips and keyboard shortcuts. For example, typing an address followed by «Dear» would cause the Assistant to appear with the message, «It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?»

Assistants[edit]

Apart from Clippy, other Office Assistants were also available:

• The Dot (a shape-shifting smiley-faced red ball)
• Hoverbot (a robot)
• The Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein, removed in Office XP but available as a downloadable add-on)
• Office Logo (a jigsaw puzzle composed of four pieces, which was the logo for Microsoft Office 9x)
• Mother Nature (a globe)
• Scribble (an origami-esque cat)
• Power Pup (a superhero dog)
• Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare).

In many cases the Office installation CD was necessary to activate a different Office assistant character, so the default character, Clippy, remains widely known compared to other Office Assistants.

In Office 2000, the Hoverbot, Scribble, and Power Pup assistants were replaced by:

• F1 (a robot)
• Links (a cat)
• Rocky (a dog)

The Clippy and Office Logo assistants were also redesigned. The removed assistants later resurfaced as downloadable add-ons.

The Microsoft Office XP Multilingual Pack had two more assistants, Saeko Sensei (冴子先生), an animated secretary, and a version of the Monkey King (Chinese: 孫悟空) for Asian language users in non-Asian Office versions.^[15] Native language versions provided additional representations, such as Kairu the dolphin in Japanese.

A small image of Clippy can be found in Office 2013 and newer, which can be seen by going to Options and changing the theme (or Office Background) to «School Supplies». Clippy would then appear on the ribbon.

Technology[edit]

The Office Assistant used technology initially from Microsoft Bob^[16] and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms.^[17] From Office 2000 onward, Microsoft Agent (.acs) replaced the Microsoft Bob-descended Actor (.act) format as the technology supporting the feature. Users can add other assistants to the folder where Office is installed for them to show up in the Office application, or install in the Microsoft Agent folder in System32 folder. Microsoft Agent-based characters have richer forms and colors, and are not enclosed within a boxed window. Furthermore, the Office Assistant could use the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech Engine to provide output speech capabilities to Microsoft Agent, but it required SAPI 4.0. The Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine allowed the Office Assistant to accept speech input.^[18]

Compatibility[edit]

The Microsoft Agent components that it requires are not included in Windows 7 or later; however, they can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Installation of Microsoft Agent on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 is also possible. When desktop compositing with Aero glass is enabled on Windows Vista or 7, or when running on Windows 8 or newer, the normally transparent space around the Office Assistant becomes the assistant’s transparency color, which is usually solid-colored pink, blue, or green.^[19]

Additional downloadable assistants[edit]

Since their introduction, more assistants have been released and have been exclusively available via download.^[20][21]

• Bosgrove (a butler)
• Courtney (a flying car driver)
• Earl (a surfboarding alien)
• Genie (a genie)
• Kairu the Dolphin, otherwise known as Chacha (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)^[22]
• Links (a cat)
• Max (a Macintosh Plus computer) (Macintosh)
• Merlin (a wizard)
• Peedy (a green parrot, which was ultimately reused in the first iteration of the notorious BonziBuddy software)
• Robby (a robot)
• Rover (a golden retriever, also featured as Windows XP Explorer’s search companion.)
• The Monkey King (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)

The 12 assistants for Office 97 could be downloaded from the Microsoft website.^[23]

Criticism and parodies[edit]

The program was widely reviled among users as intrusive and annoying,^[24][25] and was criticized even within Microsoft. Microsoft’s internal codename TFC had a derogatory origin: Steven Sinofsky^[14] states that «C» stood for «clown», while allowing his readers to guess what «TF» might stand for. Smithsonian Magazine called Clippit «one of the worst software design blunders in the annals of computing».^[26] Time magazine included Clippit in a 2010 article listing the fifty worst inventions.^[27]

Although helpful to brand-new users, and although introduced at a time when relatively few people had extensive experience with computers, Clippy was criticized for interrupting users and not providing advice that was fully adapted to the situation.^[28]

In July 2000, the online comic strip User Friendly ran a series of panels featuring Clippit.^[29] In 2001, a Microsoft advertising campaign for Office XP included the (now defunct) website officeclippy.com, which highlighted the disabling of Clippit in the software. It featured the animated adventures of Clippit (voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried) as he learned to cope with unemployment («X… XP… As in, ex-paperclip?!») and parodied behaviors of the Office assistant. Curiously, one of these («Clippy Faces Facts») uses the same punchline as one of the User Friendly comic strips.^[30] These videos can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website as self-contained Flash Player executables.^[31] In the latest video of the series, Clippit ends up in an office as a floppy disk ejecting pin.

In August 2001, a Microsoft Windows Flash-based parody named Windows RG was made by internet comedian JamesWeb. Windows RG is a parody of Windows Me that parodied the operating system’s crashes and instabilities in a more humorous and satirical way. It featured parodies of Microsoft Word and Clippit. Upon starting the pseudo-application, the Clippit-style character informs the user that they are not writing a letter but that the assistant likes letters and they should too. The assistant then instructs the user to start with the words «Milk» and «Sponge», and then adds a picture of an enlarged paperclip, which the assistant claims that it’s their brother. The pseudo-app then crashes afterwards, with a dialog box saying that «paperclip.exe» had performed «94,708» illegal operations and will be shot. After this, the assistant will then appear to be lying dead on the floor with blood spewing out (which the assistant questions itself by saying «why they have blood» even though they are a paperclip). Another dialog box appears afterwards, saying that Word has performed an illegal operation («killed a paperclip») and will be «arrested» (which for that reason actually meant closed).^[32] Another Flash-based Windows parody, Windows FU (meant to be a parody of Windows XP), also featured parodies of Microsoft Word and Clippit in a similar manner to Windows RG.

There is a Clippit parody in the Plus! Dancer application included in Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition which is later included as Windows Dancer in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The dancing character Boo Who?^[33] is wearing a ghost outfit, roughly having the shape of Clippit’s body, with a piece of wire visible underneath. Occasionally, the white sheet slips, and reveals the thin curve of steel. The description mentions «working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001». Clippit is also included as a player character in Microsoft Bicycle Card Games and Microsoft Bicycle Board Games. It was also used in the «Word Crimes» music video by «Weird Al» Yankovic.^[34]

Vigor is a Clippit-inspired parody software—a version of the vi text editor featuring a rough-sketched Clippit.

In a June 2008 episode of the NPR show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! marking the occasion of Bill Gates transitioning to semi-retirement from Microsoft, humorist Adam Felber and comedian Paul Provenza ad-lib a scenario in which Clippit (referred to as Clippy) is being driven to a location outside of Redmond, Washington, at night and says such things as «It looks like you’re digging a grave. Is this a business grave or a personal grave?» The segment has become one of the most requested by listeners for replay during «best of» reviews of the show.^[35]

On April 1, 2014, Clippit appeared as an Office Assistant in Office Online as part of an April Fools’ Day joke.^[36] Several days later, an easter egg was found in the then-preview version of Windows Phone 8.1. When asked if she likes Clippit, the personal assistant Cortana would answer «Definitely. He taught me how important it is to listen.» or «What’s not to like? That guy took a heck of a beating and he’s still smiling.»^[37] Her avatar occasionally turned into a two-dimensional Metro-style Clippit for several seconds. This easter egg is still available in the full release version of the Windows Phone operating system and Windows 10.^[38]

A Clippit easter egg is also found in Apple’s personal assistant, Siri, although it is less flattering, saying things like «Clippy?! Don’t get me started.» or «The less said about Clippy the better.»^{[citation needed]}

In Google Assistant, when asked if she trusts, knows, likes, or is Clippy, she responds with «Clippy? Clippy is legendary», with a smiling emoji at the end. And when asked why, she simply has no idea why Clippy is legendary. And when asked if she knows who Clippy is, she states she remembers the user has told her, with the answer «Clippy is an office.»^{[citation needed]}

The built-in linting tool of the Rust programming language, which was created in 2014, is named Clippy as a reference to Clippit.^[39]

On April 1, 2015, Tumblr created a parody of Clippit, Coppy, as an April Fools joke. Coppy is an anthropomorphized photocopier that behaved in similar ways to Clippit, asking the user if they want help. Coppy would engage the reader in a series of pointless questions, with a dialogue box written in Comic Sans MS, which was deliberately designed to be extremely annoying.^[40] In 2022, Tumblr created a YouTooz collectible of Coppy.

In popular culture[edit]

Clippit is often the subject of humorous parody and reference, including internet memes.^[28] It has been lampooned in multiple television series, such as The Office, ^[8] and Silicon Valley.^[41]

Clippit is portrayed as a romantic interest in «Conquered by Clippy», a tongue-in-cheek erotic story by Leonard Delaney.^[42]

In 2015, a music video directed by Chris Bristow was released for Delta Heavy’s song Ghost, which features Clippit discovering Shania, a modern voice-activated digital assistant, and later on Clippit becomes angry upon discovering the modern landscape of the world.^[43]

See also[edit]

• Microsoft Bob
• Ms. Dewey
• Tafiti
• Tay (bot)
• Talking Moose
• Virtual assistant

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Clippy discontinued in Office 12
• Download additional Agents Office 97 (Quiet Office Logo, Kairu, Earl, F1)
• Download Office 97 Assistant: Kairu the Dolphin
• Clippy returns in Microsoft’s April Fools’ pranks
• Luke Swartz — Why People Hate the Paperclip – Academic paper on why people hate the Office Assistant
• Microsoft Agent Ring — download more unofficial characters
• «Farewell Clippy: What’s Happening to the Infamous Office Assistant in Office XP» (April 2001) at Microsoft.com

The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office for Windows (versions 97 to 2003), in Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Project (versions 98 to 2003), Microsoft FrontPage (versions 2002 and 2003), and Microsoft Office for Mac (versions 98 to 2004).

The default assistant in the English version was named Clippit (commonly nicknamed Clippy), after a paperclip.^[1][2] The character was designed by Kevan J. Atteberry.^[2][3] Clippit was the default and by far the most notable Assistant (partly because in many cases the setup CD was required to install the other assistants), which also led to it being called simply the Microsoft Paperclip.^[4] The original Clippit from Office 97 was given a new look in Office 2000.

The feature drew a strongly negative response from many users.^[5][6] Microsoft turned off the feature by default in Office XP, acknowledging its unpopularity in an ad campaign spoofing Clippit.^[7] The feature was removed altogether in Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac, as it continued to draw criticism even from Microsoft employees.

In July 2021, Microsoft used Twitter to show off a redesign of Clippit (which they called «Clippy» in the Tweet), and said that if it received 20,000 likes they would replace the paperclip emoji on Microsoft 365 with the character.^[8] The Tweet quickly surpassed 20,000 likes and they then announced to replace it.^[9][10] In November 2021, Microsoft officially updated their design of the paperclip emoji (📎) on Windows 11 to be Clippit/»Clippy».^[11]

Overview

According to Alan Cooper, the «Father of Visual Basic», the concept of Clippit was based on a «tragic misunderstanding» of research conducted at Stanford University, showing that the same part of the brain in use while using a mouse or keyboard was also responsible for emotional reactions while interacting with other human beings and thus is the reason people yell at their computer monitors.^[12] Microsoft concluded that if humans reacted to computers the same way they react to other humans, it would be beneficial to include a human-like face in their software.^[12] As people already related to computers directly as they do with humans, the added human-like face emerged as an annoying interloper distracting the user from the primary conversation.^[12]

First introduced in Microsoft Office 97,^[13] the Office Assistant was codenamed TFC during development.^[14] It appeared when the program determined the user could be assisted by using Office wizards, searching help, or advising users on using Office features more effectively. It also presented tips and keyboard shortcuts. For example, typing an address followed by «Dear» would cause the Assistant to appear with the message, «It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?»

Assistants

Apart from Clippy, other Office Assistants were also available:

• The Dot (a shape-shifting smiley-faced red ball)
• Hoverbot (a robot)
• The Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein, removed in Office XP but available as a downloadable add-on)
• Office Logo (a jigsaw puzzle composed of four pieces, which was the logo for Microsoft Office 9x)
• Mother Nature (a globe)
• Scribble (an origami-esque cat)
• Power Pup (a superhero dog)
• Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare).

In many cases the Office installation CD was necessary to activate a different Office assistant character, so the default character, Clippy, remains widely known compared to other Office Assistants.

In Office 2000, the Hoverbot, Scribble, and Power Pup assistants were replaced by:

• F1 (a robot)
• Links (a cat)
• Rocky (a dog)

The Clippy and Office Logo assistants were also redesigned. The removed assistants later resurfaced as downloadable add-ons.

The Microsoft Office XP Multilingual Pack had two more assistants, Saeko Sensei (冴子先生), an animated secretary, and a version of the Monkey King (Chinese: 孫悟空) for Asian language users in non-Asian Office versions.^[15] Native language versions provided additional representations, such as Kairu the dolphin in Japanese.

A small image of Clippy can be found in Office 2013 and newer, which can be seen by going to Options and changing the theme (or Office Background) to «School Supplies». Clippy would then appear on the ribbon.

Technology

The Office Assistant used technology initially from Microsoft Bob^[16] and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms.^[17] From Office 2000 onward, Microsoft Agent (.acs) replaced the Microsoft Bob-descended Actor (.act) format as the technology supporting the feature. Users can add other assistants to the folder where Office is installed for them to show up in the Office application, or install in the Microsoft Agent folder in System32 folder. Microsoft Agent-based characters have richer forms and colors, and are not enclosed within a boxed window. Furthermore, the Office Assistant could use the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech Engine to provide output speech capabilities to Microsoft Agent, but it required SAPI 4.0. The Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine allowed the Office Assistant to accept speech input.^[18]

Compatibility

The Microsoft Agent components that it requires are not included in Windows 7 or later; however, they can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Installation of Microsoft Agent on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 is also possible. When desktop compositing with Aero glass is enabled on Windows Vista or 7, or when running on Windows 8 or newer, the normally transparent space around the Office Assistant becomes the assistant’s transparency color, which is usually solid-colored pink, blue, or green.^[19]

Additional downloadable assistants

Since their introduction, more assistants have been released and have been exclusively available via download.^[20][21]

• Bosgrove (a butler)
• Courtney (a flying car driver)
• Earl (a surfboarding alien)
• Genie (a genie)
• Kairu the Dolphin, otherwise known as Chacha (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)^[22]
• Links (a cat)
• Max (a Macintosh Plus computer) (Macintosh)
• Merlin (a wizard)
• Peedy (a green parrot, which was ultimately reused in the first iteration of the notorious BonziBuddy software)
• Robby (a robot)
• Rover (a golden retriever, also featured as Windows XP Explorer’s search companion.)
• The Monkey King (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)

The 12 assistants for Office 97 could be downloaded from the Microsoft website.^[23]

Criticism and parodies

The program was widely reviled among users as intrusive and annoying,^[24][25] and was criticized even within Microsoft. Microsoft’s internal codename TFC had a derogatory origin: Steven Sinofsky^[14] states that «C» stood for «clown», while allowing his readers to guess what «TF» might stand for. Smithsonian Magazine called Clippit «one of the worst software design blunders in the annals of computing».^[26] Time (magazine) magazine included Clippit in a 2010 article listing the fifty worst inventions.^[27]

Although helpful to brand-new users, and although introduced at a time when relatively few people had extensive experience with computers, Clippy was criticized for interrupting users and not providing advice that was fully adapted to the situation.^[28]

In July 2000, the online comic strip User Friendly ran a series of panels featuring Clippit.^[29] In 2001, a Microsoft advertising campaign for Office XP included the (now defunct) website officeclippy.com, which highlighted the disabling of Clippit in the software. It featured the animated adventures of Clippit (voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried) as he learned to cope with unemployment («X… XP… As in, ex-paperclip?!») and parodied behaviors of the Office assistant. Curiously, one of these («Clippy Faces Facts») uses the same punchline as one of the User Friendly comic strips.^[30] These videos can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website as self-contained Flash Player executables.^[31] In the latest video of the series, Clippit ends up in an office as a floppy disk ejecting pin.

In August 2001, a Microsoft Windows Flash-based parody named Windows RG was made by internet comedian JamesWeb. Windows RG is a parody of Windows Me that parodied the operating system’s crashes and instabilities in a more humorous and satirical way. It featured parodies of Microsoft Word and Clippit. Upon starting the pseudo-application, the Clippit-style character informs the user that they are not writing a letter but that the assistant likes letters and they should too. The assistant then instructs the user to start with the words «Milk» and «Sponge», and then adds a picture of an enlarged paperclip, which the assistant claims that it’s their brother. The pseudo-app then crashes afterwards, with a dialog box saying that «paperclip.exe» had performed «94,708» illegal operations and will be shot. After this, the assistant will then appear to be lying dead on the floor with blood spewing out (which the assistant questions itself by saying «why they have blood» even though they are a paperclip). Another dialog box appears afterwards, saying that Word has performed an illegal operation («killed a paperclip») and will be «arrested» (which for that reason actually meant closed).^[32] Another Flash-based Windows parody, Windows FU (meant to be a parody of Windows XP), also featured parodies of Microsoft Word and Clippit in a similar manner to Windows RG.

There is a Clippit parody in the Plus! Dancer application included in Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition which is later included as Windows Dancer in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The dancing character Boo Who?^[33] is wearing a ghost outfit, roughly having the shape of Clippit’s body, with a piece of wire visible underneath. Occasionally, the white sheet slips, and reveals the thin curve of steel. The description mentions «working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001». Clippit is also included as a player character in Microsoft Bicycle Card Games and Microsoft Bicycle Board Games. It was also used in the «Word Crimes» music video by «Weird Al» Yankovic.^[34]

Vigor is a Clippit-inspired parody software—a version of the vi text editor featuring a rough-sketched Clippit.

In a June 2008 episode of the NPR show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! marking the occasion of Bill Gates transitioning to semi-retirement from Microsoft, humorist Adam Felber and comedian Paul Provenza ad-lib a scenario in which Clippit (referred to as Clippy) is being driven to a location outside of Redmond, Washington, at night and says such things as «It looks like you’re digging a grave. Is this a business grave or a personal grave?» The segment has become one of the most requested by listeners for replay during «best of» reviews of the show.^[35]

On April 1, 2014, Clippit appeared as an Office Assistant in Office Online as part of an April Fools’ Day joke.^[36] Several days later, an easter egg was found in the then-preview version of Windows Phone 8.1. When asked if she likes Clippit, the personal assistant Cortana would answer «Definitely. He taught me how important it is to listen.» or «What’s not to like? That guy took a heck of a beating and he’s still smiling.»^[37] Her avatar occasionally turned into a two-dimensional Metro-style Clippit for several seconds. This easter egg is still available in the full release version of the Windows Phone operating system and Windows 10.^[38]

A Clippit easter egg is also found in Apple’s personal assistant, Siri, although it is less flattering, saying things like «Clippy?! Don’t get me started.» or «The less said about Clippy the better.»

In Google Assistant, when asked if she trusts, knows, likes, or is Clippy, she responds with «Clippy? Clippy is legendary», with a smiling emoji at the end. And when asked why, she simply has no idea why Clippy is legendary. And when asked if she knows who Clippy is, she states she remembers the user has told her, with the answer «Clippy is an office.»

The built-in linting tool of the Rust programming language, which was created in 2014, is named Clippy as a reference to Clippit.^[39]

On April 1, 2015, Tumblr created a parody of Clippit, Coppy, as an April Fools joke. Coppy is an anthropomorphized photocopier that behaved in similar ways to Clippit, asking the user if they want help. Coppy would engage the reader in a series of pointless questions, with a dialogue box written in Comic Sans MS, which was deliberately designed to be extremely annoying.^[40] In 2022, Tumblr created a YouTooz collectible of Coppy.

In popular culture

Clippit is often the subject of humorous parody and reference, including internet memes.^[28] It has been lampooned in multiple television series, such as The Office, ^[8] and Silicon Valley.^[41]

Clippit is portrayed as a romantic interest in «Conquered by Clippy», a tongue-in-cheek erotic story by Leonard Delaney.^[42]

In 2015, a music video directed by Chris Bristow was released for Delta Heavy’s song Ghost, which features Clippit discovering Shania, a modern voice-activated digital assistant, and later on Clippit becomes angry upon discovering the modern landscape of the world.^[43]

See also

• Microsoft Bob
• Ms. Dewey
• Tafiti
• Tay (bot)
• Talking Moose
• Virtual assistant

References

External links

• Clippy discontinued in Office 12
• Download additional Agents Office 97 (Quiet Office Logo, Kairu, Earl, F1)
• Download Office 97 Assistant: Kairu the Dolphin
• Clippy returns in Microsoft’s April Fools’ pranks
• Luke Swartz — Why People Hate the Paperclip – Academic paper on why people hate the Office Assistant
• Microsoft Agent Ring — download more unofficial characters
• «Farewell Clippy: What’s Happening to the Infamous Office Assistant in Office XP» (April 2001) at Microsoft.com

The Office Assistant was a Microsoft Office feature to assist users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. It used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms. In Microsoft Office for Windows, it was included in versions 97 to 2003 and in Microsoft Publisher, it was included in versions 98 to 2003. In Microsoft Office for Mac, it was included in versions 98 to 2004. The default assistant in the English Windows version was named Clippit, nicknamed Clippy,^[1][2] after a paperclip. The character was designed by Kevan J. Atteberry.^[2] Usually Clippy taps the screen on first appearing.

The feature drew a strongly negative response from many users.^[3][4] Microsoft turned off the feature by default in Office XP, acknowledging its unpopularity in an ad campaign spoofing Clippit.^[5] The feature was removed altogether in Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, as it drew criticism from customers and even Microsoft employees.

Overview

Office Assistant was codenamed TFC during development,^[6] and was enabled by default in early Microsoft Office versions. It popped up when the program determined the user could be assisted with using Office wizards, searching help, or advising users on using Office features more effectively. It presented tips and keyboard shortcuts. For example, typing an address followed by «Dear» would cause Clippit to pop up and say, «It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?«

Other Office assistants were available, such as The Dot (a shape-shifting and colour-shifting smiley-faced red ball), Hoverbot (a robot), The Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein), Office Logo (a jigsaw puzzle), Mother Nature (a globe), Scribble (an origami-esque cat), Power Pup (a superhero dog) and Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare). In later versions of Microsoft Office for Windows, the Hoverbot, Scribble and Power Pup assistants were replaced by F1, Links and Rocky (a robot, a cat and a dog respectively). The cat, Links, meowed and purred when a woman’s hand scratched its head. It would groom itself, curl up and sleep, or roll over on its side. In many cases the Office installation CD was necessary to activate a different Office assistant character, so the default character, Clippit, remains widely known. An assistant named Max, in the shape of a Macintosh Plus, served as the default on Mac versions of Office.

The Microsoft Office XP Multilingual Pack had two more assistants, Saeko Sensei (冴子先生^?) (an animated secretary) and a version of Monkey King (孫悟空^?) for Asian language users in non-Asian Office versions.^[7] Native language versions provided additional representations such as Kairu the dolphin, in Japanese. Clippit inspired parody software such as Vigor, a version of the vi text editor with a paperclip.

Additional assistants

Since their introduction, more assistants have been released.^[8][9]

• Bosgrove (a butler)
• Genie (a genie)
• Kairu the Dolphin (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)^[10]
• Max (a Macintosh Plus computer) (Macintosh)
• Peedy (a green parrot)
• Robby (a robot)
• Merlin (a wizard)

The 1997 assistants can be downloaded from the Microsoft website.^[11]

Later versions

Starting in Office 2000, Microsoft Agent (ACS) replaced the Microsoft Bob-descended Actor (ACT) format as the technology supporting the feature. Users can add other assistants to the folder where Office is installed for them to show up in the Office application. Microsoft Agent-based characters have richer forms and colors, and are not enclosed within a boxed window.

As of Office 2007/2008, Microsoft replaced the Office assistant with a new online help system.

In Ribbon Hero 2

After featuring Clippy’s tomb in a movie to promote Office 2010,^[12] the character was relaunched as the main character of the game Ribbon Hero 2, which is an interactive tutorial released by Microsoft in 2011.^[13] In the game, Clippy needs a new job and accidentally goes inside a time machine, travelling to different ages solving problems with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Onenote. Other Office Assistant names are also featured during the «Future Age» as planets of the future solar system.

Criticism and parodies

The program was widely reviled among users as intrusive and annoying,^[14][15] and was criticized even within Microsoft. Microsoft’s internal codename TFC had a derogatory origin: Steven Sinofsky ^[16]states that «C» stood for «clown», while allowing his readers to guess what «TF» might stand for. Smithsonian Magazine called Clippy «one of the worst software design blunders in the annals of computing».^[17]

In July 2000, the online comic strip User Friendly ran a series of panels featuring Clippy.^[18] In 2001, a Microsoft advertising campaign for Office XP included the (now defunct) website officeclippy.com, which highlighted the disabling of Clippit in the software. It featured the animated adventures of Clippit (voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, in his trademark annoying voice) as he learned to cope with unemployment («X…XP…As in, ex-paperclip?!») and parodied behaviors of the Office assistant. Curiously, one of these («Clippy Faces Facts») uses the same punchline as one of the User Friendly comic strips.^[19] These videos can be downloaded at the Internet Archive.^[20] Clippy ends up in an office as a floppy disk ejecting pin for Macintosh Computers.

There is a Clippit parody in the Plus! Dancer application included in Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition which is later included as Windows Dancer in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The dancing character Boo Who?^[21] is wearing a ghost outfit, roughly having the shape of Clippit’s body, with a piece of wire visible underneath. Occasionally, the white sheet slips, and reveals the thin curve of steel. The description mentions «working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001». Clippit is also included as a player character in Microsoft Bicycle Card Games and Microsoft Bicycle Board Games.

Demitri Martin parodied Clippit in his stand up special Demetri Martin. Person. when he said, «I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, «Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.»^[22]

The webcomic Help Desk has Binky the Cheerful Winking Paperclip who is (almost) always cheerful, and is a parody of Microsoft’s Office Assistant. He saved the world from Steve Jobs, was captured by said Apple CEO, and mutated into a classy, aristocratic paperclip named Steve (also known as iClip). Binky was later cloned into Drinky and Evil Binky, who are parodies of Microsoft and Bill Gates.^[23]

College Humor also parodied Clippy in the Clock Suckers’ 9th episode, Abe-Hole,^[24] appearing in an action movie trailer where his annoying remarks are actually useful, which contrasts with most other parodies like Matrix Runs on Windows XP when Neo is bending clippy with his mind.

In the Family Guy episode «Lois Kills Stewie,» Stewie sneaks into CIA headquarters and uses one of their computers, and is greatly annoyed when Clippy appears on the screen and says, «I see you’re trying to take over the world. Can I help?» Stewie then yells, «Go away, you paperclip! No one likes you!»

In The Simpsons episode «Funeral for a Fiend», Sideshow Bob attempts to kill the Simpson family with a defective laptop battery and a pile of dynamite. Clippy appears on the laptop screen and says «It looks like you’re trying to blow up the computer. Mind if I hug my kids?», at which point two smaller paper clips appear, and Clippy appears to hug them. In another episode, Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot, a computer in Springfield Elementary School is being consumed by Bart’s new pet snake, to which Clippy appears and says «You look like you’re trying to eat me, need some help?»

In the episode «The One Wherein There is a Big Twist Part II» of Drawn Together, the character of Wooldoor Sockbat is unable to reintegrate into society after leaving the Drawn Together house and attempts suicide, Clippy appears as he is about to hang himself and says ‘Hey, writing a suicide note? I can help. Here’s a tip: avoid cliches like «goodbye cruel world» and remember to blame your parents’.

In a June 2008 episode of the NPR comedy quiz show Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, panelists adlib the dialogue of Clippy as he is driven to the woods outside of Redmond, WA for a mafia-like execution. Quotes include «What are you digging, what are you digging? Can I help you dig?», «Oh, you’ve got a baseball bat, can I help you learn to play baseball?», and «It looks like you’re digging a grave. Is this a business grave, or a personal grave?» This moment was ultimately voted the favorite moment of the show by fans for Wait Wait’s August 2009 «Listener’s Choice» episode.^[25]

A recent parody video created by Microsoft to advertise their new product, Office 2010: The Movie, features a man who is investigating a case about a rogue girl who created a hypnotic font. When initially asked to take up the case, the man replies, «I can’t… My partner (Clippy).» The chief responds, «You’ve got to let him go.»^[26]

The series Red vs. Blue parodied Clippy in one episode, with Sarge claiming that he has been considered to replace Clippy as the Office Assistant. His appearance soundbyte would have been: «Where do you want to go today, dirtbag?». A third-party developer later released a working office assistant add-on based on the parody.

In the 2008 spoof comedy movie Superhero Movie, the villain of the story, The Hourglass, is using a Microsoft world domination software disk (a parody of a windows software disc), when clippy appears and says: «It looks like you are planning a mass-murder. May I help?» to which The Hourglass responds, «Tch…paperclip guy…».

In Animator vs. Animation 3, Clippy attempts to kill the stick figure (the Chosen One) after it invades the Animator’s Required Essay, using a text-made sword with help from the Animator, who uses a text-made gun. While the Chosen One and Clippy face off, the Animatior creates another stick figure, the Dark Lord, giving him the command to destroy the Chosen One. After the Dark Lord is dropped into the now-empty essay, Clippy gets tangled like a yarn, and the Chosen One kicks him out of the Microsoft Word window, missing the brawl between the Chosen One and the Dark Lord.

In a video called «The Matrix runs on Windows XP» by College Humor, Clippit is seen twice, and at the end he says: «Looks like you’re trying to save humanity, want some help?»

In 2011 as part of April Fools, Blizzard Entertainment promoted Crabby, a «dungeon helper» similar in style to Clippit. Crabby also appears to users while browsing pages related to World of Warcraft. At the end of April Fools, Crabby was removed from browsing pages in response of some text being blocked by him.

In the season 7 finale of The Office: Search Committee, Darryl is told that he will need to supply a resume as part of his application for branch manager, he calls customer support: «Yes, there used to be a paper clip that would pop up and say, ‘Looks like you are writing a letter or resume. Would you like help?’ I believe his name was…Clippy.»

See also

• Ms. Dewey
• Tafiti
• Talking Moose
• Vigor
• Virtual assistant

References

External links

• Clippit discontinued in Office 12
• Download additional Agents Office 97 (Quiet Office Logo, Kairu, Earl, F1)
• Luke Swartz — Why People Hate the Paperclip — Academic paper on why people hate the Office Assistant
• Microsoft Agent Ring — download more unofficial characters
• «Farewell Clippy: What’s Happening to the Infamous Office Assistant in Office XP» (April 2001) at Microsoft.com

На ленте в Office 2016 есть текстовое поле Что вы хотите сделать? В него можно вводить слова и фразы, описывающие то, что вы хотите сделать, чтобы быстро переходить к соответствующим функциям или действиям. Вы также можете использовать помощник для поиска справки о нужной функции или искать определения введенных терминов с помощью интеллектуального поиска.

Примечание: Корпорация Майкрософт постоянно тестирует новые возможности, которые помогут вам достичь большего с помощью Office. По этой причине на ленте вместо «Что вы хотите сделать? вместо «Что вы хотите сделать? Функциональные возможности идентичны, мы просто пробуем новые идеи, чтобы сделать их более обнаруживаемыми. Дополнительные сведения об использовании поиска см. в Поиск (Майкрософт) в Office.

Tell me — это текстовое поле, в котором можно вводить слова и фразы о том, что вы хотите сделать дальше, и быстро переходить к нужным функциям или действиям.

Чтобы открыть помощник при редактировании файла в Office Online, можно коснуться лампочки справа от вкладок, как показано на приведенном ниже рисунке.

Tell me — это текстовое поле, в котором можно вводить слова и фразы о том, что вы хотите сделать дальше, и быстро переходить к нужным функциям или действиям.

При редактировании файла в Office для Mac вы можете получить доступ к tell me, щелкнув лампочку справа от вкладок и введите запрос, как по видно на рисунке ниже.

Tell me is a tool where you can enter words and phrases about what you want to do next, and quickly get to features you want to use or actions you want to perform.

Чтобы открыть помощник на iPhone, можно коснуться лампочки справа от вкладки «Главная» на палитре. На iPad лампочка находится в правом верхнем углу экрана, как показано на приведенном ниже рисунке.

Tell me is a tool where you can enter words and phrases about what you want to do next, and quickly get to features you want to use or actions you want to perform.

Чтобы открыть помощник на телефоне или планшете с Android, нажмите кнопку с лампочкой, как показано на рисунке.

На телефоне она будет находиться на палитре в левом нижнем углу экрана. На планшете она будет находиться на ленте в верхней части экрана.

Tell me — это текстовое поле, в котором можно вводить слова и фразы о том, что вы хотите сделать дальше, и быстро переходить к нужным функциям или действиям. Вы также можете использовать помощник для поиска справки о нужной функции или искать определения введенных терминов с помощью интеллектуального поиска.

Чтобы открыть помощник на компьютере или планшете, можно коснуться лампочки в правом верхнем углу окна, как показано на приведенном ниже рисунке.

Помощник Office является прекращено интеллектуальным пользовательским интерфейсом для Microsoft Office , который помогал пользователям путем интерактивного анимационного характера, сопряженный с содержанием справки Office. Он был включен в Microsoft Office для Windows (версии с 97 по 2003), в Microsoft Publisher и Microsoft Project (версии с 98 по 2003), Microsoft FrontPage (версии 2002 и 2003) и Microsoft Office для Mac (версии с 98 по 2004).

Помощник по умолчанию в английской версии был назван Clippit (обычно прозванный Clippy ) в честь скрепки . Персонаж был разработан Кеваном Дж. Аттеберри на компьютере Macintosh . Clippit был по умолчанию и наиболее заметным помощником (отчасти потому, что во многих случаях для установки других помощников требовался установочный компакт-диск), из-за чего его также называли просто Microsoft Paperclip . Исходный Clippit в Office 97 получил новый вид в Office 2000 .

Эта функция вызвала резко отрицательную реакцию многих пользователей. Microsoft отключила эту функцию в Office XP по умолчанию , признав ее непопулярность в рекламной кампании, имитирующей Clippit. Эта функция была полностью удалена в Office 2007 и Office 2008 для Mac , поскольку она продолжала вызывать критику даже со стороны сотрудников Microsoft.

В июле 2021 года Microsoft использовала Twitter, чтобы продемонстрировать редизайн Clippit (который они назвали «Clippy» в твите), и заявила, что если он получит 20 000 лайков, они заменит смайлик скрепки в Microsoft 365 персонажем. Твит быстро набрал 20 000 лайков, и затем они объявили о его замене.

Обзор

По словам Алана Купера , «отца Visual Basic», концепция Clippit была основана на «трагическом недоразумении» исследования, проведенного в Стэнфордском университете , показавшего, что та же самая часть мозга, которая используется при использовании мыши или клавиатуры, также отвечает за эмоциональные реакции при взаимодействии с другими людьми, и поэтому люди кричат ​​на мониторы своих компьютеров . Microsoft пришла к выводу, что если люди будут реагировать на компьютеры так же, как они реагируют на других людей, было бы полезно включить человеческое лицо в свое программное обеспечение. Поскольку люди уже имели прямое отношение к компьютерам, как и к людям, добавленное человеческое лицо стало раздражающим нарушителем, отвлекающим пользователя от основного разговора.

Office Assistant, впервые представленный в Microsoft Office 97 , во время разработки получил кодовое название TFC. Оно появилось, когда программа определила, что пользователю можно помочь с помощью мастеров Office, поиска в справке или рекомендаций пользователям по более эффективному использованию функций Office. В нем также представлены подсказки и сочетания клавиш. Например, при вводе адреса с последующим словом «Уважаемый» появится Ассистент с сообщением: « Похоже, вы пишете письмо . Вам нужна помощь? »

Помощники

Помимо Clippit, были доступны и другие офисные помощники:

• Точка ( меняющий форму смайлик красный шар)
• Hoverbot (робот)
• Гений (карикатура на Альберта Эйнштейна , удалена в Office XP, но доступна как загружаемое дополнение)
• Логотип офиса (головоломка)
• Мать-природа (глобус)
• Scribble (кот в стиле оригами)
• Power Pup ( собака супергероя )
• Уилл (карикатура на Уильяма Шекспира ).

Во многих случаях установочный компакт-диск Office был необходим для активации другого персонажа помощника Office, поэтому персонаж по умолчанию, Clippit, остается широко известным по сравнению с другими помощниками Office.

В Office 2000 помощники Hoverbot , Scribble и Power Pup были заменены на:

• F1 (робот)
• Ссылки (кот)
• Рокки (собака)

Также были переработаны помощники Clippit и Office Logo. Удаленные помощники позже появились в виде загружаемых надстроек.

В многоязычном пакете Microsoft Office XP было еще два помощника, Саеко Сенсей (冴 子 先生) , анимированный секретарь и версия Короля обезьян ( китайский :孫悟空) для пользователей азиатских языков в неазиатских версиях Office. В версиях на родном языке были представлены дополнительные изображения, например, дельфин Кайру на японском языке.

Небольшое изображение Clippit можно найти в Office 2013 или новее, которое можно включить, перейдя в «Параметры» и изменив тему на «Школьные принадлежности». Затем на ленте появлялся Клиппит.

Технология

Office Assistant первоначально использовал технологию Microsoft Bob, а затем Microsoft Agent , предлагая советы, основанные на байесовских алгоритмах. Начиная с Office 2000, Microsoft Agent (.acs) заменил формат Actor, производный от Microsoft Bob (.act), в качестве технологии, поддерживающей эту функцию. Пользователи могут добавлять других помощников в папку, в которой установлен Office, чтобы они отображались в приложении Office, или устанавливать их в папку Microsoft Agent в папке System32 . Символы на основе агента Microsoft имеют более богатые формы и цвета и не заключены в рамку окна. Кроме того, Office Assistant мог использовать Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech Engine для обеспечения возможности вывода речи для Microsoft Agent, но для этого требовался SAPI 4.0. Механизм распознавания речи Microsoft позволил помощнику Office принимать речевой ввод.

Совместимость

Компоненты Microsoft Agent, которые ему требуются, не включены в Windows 7 или более позднюю версию; однако их можно загрузить с веб-сайта Microsoft. Также возможна установка Microsoft Agent в Windows 8 и Windows 10 . Когда компоновка рабочего стола с использованием стекла Aero включена в Windows Vista или 7 или при работе в Windows 8 или новее, обычно прозрачное пространство вокруг Office Assistant становится сплошным розовым, синим или зеленым.

В 2019 году Clippit был перенесен на macOS с использованием SpriteKit-Framework и написан на Swift .

Дополнительные загружаемые помощники

С момента их появления было выпущено больше помощников, которые были доступны только для скачивания.

• Босгроув ( дворецкий )
• Кортни (водитель летающей машины)
• Эрл (пришелец, занимающийся серфингом)
• Джинн ( джинн )
• Дельфин Кайру , иначе известный как Чача (доступен для восточноазиатских выпусков, загружается для Office 97)
• Рысь
• Макс ( компьютер Macintosh Plus ) (Macintosh)
• Мерлин ( волшебник )
• Пиди (зеленый попугай , который в конечном итоге был повторно использован в первой версии печально известной программы BonziBuddy )
• Робби ( робот )
• Ровер (золотистый ретривер, также являющийся помощником в поиске Windows XP Explorer ).
• Король обезьян (доступно для восточноазиатских выпусков, загружается для Office 97)

12 помощников для Office 97 можно загрузить с веб-сайта Microsoft.

Критика и пародии

Программа получила широкое признание среди пользователей как навязчивую и надоедливую, а также подверглась критике даже в самой Microsoft. Внутреннее кодовое название Microsoft TFC имеет уничижительное происхождение: Стивен Синофски утверждает, что «C» означает «клоун», позволяя своим читателям догадываться, что может означать «TF». Журнал Smithsonian Magazine назвал Clippit «одной из худших ошибок проектирования программного обеспечения в анналах вычислительной техники». Журнал Time включил Клиппита в статью 2010 года, в которой перечислены пятьдесят худших изобретений.

В июле 2000 года онлайн-комикс User Friendly запустил серию панелей с участием Clippit. В 2001 году рекламная кампания Microsoft для Office XP включала (ныне несуществующий) веб-сайт officeclippy.com , на котором говорилось об отключении Clippit в программном обеспечении. В нем были показаны анимированные приключения Клиппита (озвученный комиком Гилбертом Готфридом ), когда он учился справляться с безработицей («X… XP… Как, бывшая скрепка ?!») и пародированное поведение офисного помощника. Любопытно, что в одном из них («Факты о резких лицах») используется та же изюминка, что и в одном из удобных для пользователя комиксов. Эти видеоролики можно загрузить с веб-сайта Microsoft как автономные исполняемые файлы Flash Player . Клиппит оказывается в офисе булавкой для извлечения дискеты.

В августе 2001 года интернет-комик Джеймс Веб создал пародийную версию Windows под названием Windows RG, которую люди могли запускать в веб-браузерах. Поддельная операционная система часто дает сбой и отображает сообщения об ошибках. Пародия на Windows представляет собой базовую версию Word. При запуске персонаж в стиле Clippit сообщает пользователю: «Похоже, вы, вероятно, не пишете письмо. Мне нравятся буквы. Я думаю, вам стоит». Он просит пользователя начинать письмо со слов «МОЛОЧНАЯ ГУБКА» перед тем, как вставить изображение скрепки в документ, который, как он утверждает, является его братом. Это приводит к сбою программы. Windows RG сообщает пользователю, что «paperclip.exe выполнил 94 708 незаконных операций [sic] и теперь будет удален». Затем программа Word закрывается, выполнив недопустимую операцию «(убила скрепку)», и закрывается.

В Plus есть пародия на Clippit! Приложение Dancer включено в Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, который позже будет включен как Windows Dancer в Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 . Танцующий персонаж Бу Кто ? одет в призрачный костюм, примерно имеющий форму тела Клиппита, с видимым под ним куском проволоки. Иногда белый лист соскальзывает и обнажает тонкий изгиб стали. В описании упоминается «короткое время поработал в компании-разработчике программного обеспечения в Редмонде, штат Вашингтон, где он продолжал работать до выхода на пенсию в 2001 году». Клиппит также включен в качестве игрового персонажа в Microsoft Bicycle Card Games и Microsoft Bicycle Board Games . Он также использовался в музыкальном клипе » Word Crimes » «Weird Al» Янковичем .

Vigor — это программа для пародий, вдохновленная Clippit — версия текстового редактора vi с наброском Clippit.

1 апреля 2014 года Клиппит появился в качестве помощника по Office в Office Online в рамках первоапрельской шутки. Спустя несколько дней в предварительной версии Windows Phone 8.1 было найдено пасхальное яйцо . На вопрос, нравится ли ей Клиппит, личный помощник Кортана ответила: «Определенно. Он научил меня, как важно слушать». или «Что не нравится? Этот парень чертовски избит, но все еще улыбается». Иногда ее аватар на несколько секунд превращался в двухмерный Клиппит в стиле Метро . Это пасхальное яйцо по-прежнему доступно в полной версии операционной системы Windows Phone и Windows 10. Пасхальное яйцо Clippit также можно найти в личном помощнике Apple , Siri , хотя оно менее лестно, говоря: «Clippy ?! меня начали. » или «Чем меньше будет сказано о Клиппи, тем лучше». Однако в Google Assistant это гораздо менее лестно, чем у Siri. Когда ее спрашивают, доверяет ли она, знает ли она, любит ли она или является Клиппи, она отвечает: «Клиппи? Клиппи легендарный» с улыбающимся смайликом в конце. И когда ее спрашивают, почему, она просто не понимает, почему о Клиппи легендарны. И когда ее спрашивают, знает ли она, кто такая Клиппи, она заявляет, что помнит, что пользователь сказал ей, с ответом «Клиппи — это офис».

1 апреля 2015 года Tumblr создал пародию на Клиппита, Коппи, как первоапрельскую шутку. Coppy — антропоморфизированный копировальный аппарат, который ведет себя аналогично Clippit, спрашивая пользователя, нужна ли ему помощь. Коппи вовлекал читателя в серию бессмысленных вопросов с диалоговым окном, написанным на Comic Sans MS , намеренно созданным, чтобы быть чрезвычайно раздражающим.

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После показа могилы Клиппита в фильме, посвященном Office 2010, персонаж был повторно запущен в качестве главного героя игры Ribbon Hero 2 , интерактивного учебника, выпущенного Microsoft в 2011 году. В игре Клиппи нужна новая работа, и он случайно уходит. внутри машины времени, путешествуя по разным возрастам, решая задачи с Word , Excel , PowerPoint и OneNote . Другие имена офисных помощников также фигурируют в «эпоху будущего» как планеты будущей солнечной системы.

В « Поиск комитета », в седьмом сезоне финал The Office транслировался в мае 2011 года, Дэррил называет Microsoft и спрашивает по- прежнему ли они Clippit при попытке построить резюме.

В 2015 году был выпущен музыкальный клип на песню Ghost (от Delta Heavy ), в котором заброшенный Clippit застрял между программным обеспечением середины девяностых, но затем отправляется в современную сеть и восстанавливает свое место, взламывая любой цифровой система.

Клиппит сыграл эпизодическую роль в эпизоде ​​« Drawn Together » «Тот, в котором есть большой поворот, часть 2», где он предложил помочь Wooldoor Sockbat с его предсмертной запиской.

Клиппит изображается как романтик в комедийно-эротическом рассказе Леонарда Делани «Завоеванный Клиппи».

В девятом эпизоде ​​3-го сезона « Кремниевой долины» канала HBO , первоначально показанном в июне 2016 года, новый анимационный персонаж по имени «Пайпи», явно основанный на Microsoft Clippit, оказывает помощь пользователям платформы Pied Piper.

В «Удивительном мире Гамбола», эпизоде ​​«Пустота», Гамбол и Дарвин Уоттерсон входят в Пустоту, измерение, в котором люди и вещи, которые считались «ошибками» мира, помещаются после того, как были удалены из существования. Когда эти двое пытаются сбежать из измерения со своим забытым другом, Молли Коллинз, они сталкиваются с Клиппитом, который спрашивает Гамбола, пишет ли он электронное письмо. Затем Гамбол нокаутирует его ближайшей дискотечной туфлей.

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