I shall now share a dirty secret that I learnt during my time at Microsoft: not everyone hates Clippy.<\/p>\n
People love to hate on the poor guy, including a crazy rumor that there was a child found in the Word:Mac code who was terrorized by Clippy<\/a>. And check out the comments thread for the video for Again and Again<\/a>, where Clippy is just dancing his little heart out, but haters gotta hate. \u00a0Microsoft tried to give him a new gig with Ribbon Hero 2<\/a>. \u00a0I even stumbled upon a JavaScript implementation of Clippy<\/a> today, calling the poor little guy a “failed Microsoft technology”.<\/p>\n But not everyone hates Clippy. \u00a0I learned this in a most unexpected manner. \u00a0You see, the Office:Mac website allows people to submit feedback. \u00a0When I worked there, I would go through that feedback every few weeks to see if there was anything in there that would be helpful to me as I was working on my research. \u00a0And one day, someone sent in a request for the return of Clippy.<\/p>\n That person gushed on about how useful Clippy was and how they truly missed Clippy. \u00a0Specifically, they wanted the cat version of Clippy which was (if I recall correctly) unique to the Mac version of Office. \u00a0They even offered to pay extra for a version of Office that included him. \u00a0I, of course, forwarded that message along to our marketing team to let them know that they were missing a huge opportunity to create Office:Mac Special Clippy Edition, but strangely that mail went unanswered.<\/p>\n So remember that, the next time you hate on Clippy. \u00a0You might just be talking to someone who wanted Clippy back so badly that they actually took the time to write to Microsoft to ask for his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I shall now share a dirty secret that I learnt during my time at Microsoft: not everyone hates Clippy. People love to hate on the poor guy, including a crazy rumor that there was a child found in the Word:Mac code who was terrorized by Clippy. And check out the comments thread for the video … Continue reading not everyone hates Clippy<\/span>