If you were around for the release of Office 97, you'll know the overly-helpful Clippy Office Assistant. For newcomers to Office Suite, he was actually quite useful, showing you the ropes of the new ...

"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 ...

The takeaway: As the industry shifts toward agentic browsers and more human-like AI companions – such as OpenAI's new Atlas and Anthropic's latest Claude models – Microsoft wants Copilot to remain the ...