Here's Eric Horvitz's page on Lumiere, the research project underlying Clippy - http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm. It's quite sad th

Here's Eric Horvitz's page on Lumiere, the research project underlying Clippy - http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm http://erichorvitz.com/lum.htm. It's quite sad that the business side hobbled the assistant to the point of making it annoying, mainly because of space reasons (that was also when Office got its first spell check, and the extra space needed for the the more sophisticated assistant modeling was competing for that space).