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At least the "It looks like you're writing a letter" era came with entertainment by Clippy. I avoid going to sites that don't remember my rejection of their "w
by smoyer 13y ago
At least the "It looks like you're writing a letter" era came with entertainment by Clippy. I avoid going to sites that don't remember my rejection of their "website-wannabe" apps ... Atwood is right about how annoying that is!
- dredmorbius 13y agoYou call that entertainment? Back when I had the misfortune to have to use Microsoft software, pretty much the first thing I learned to do on any fresh revision was how to nuke those damned tools with extreme prejudice. The most gratuitously annoying aspect of the cartoons? The little dance they did when you told them to go to fucking hell and never come back. One more half second just to rub it all in.
- smoyer 13y agoCalling it "Entertainment" was tongue-in-cheek ... WSYIWYG is overrated!
- dredmorbius 13y agoSeems it's less tongue-in-cheek than staple-into-roof-of-mouth, but yes.
- smoyer 13y agoOuch! (It hurts to just consider that)
- gaius 13y agoI liked the cat, I still miss him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI
- dredmorbius 13y agoI'm quite fond of cats. Not that one though. They were all just so gratuitously annoying. Actually, now that I think about it, Microsoft's tone-deafness on just how much people hated Clippy reminds me of Google's attitudes on G+, Real Names, and the Anschluss of all Google services. Note that ZDNet (hardly a harsh Microsoft critic) noted when Clippy was finally killed (in 2001): http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-kills-off-clippy-3002085615/ http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-kills-off-clippy-3002085615/ Software giant Microsoft is laying off one of its most controversial employees: Clippy. The software help system, a long-despised feature of Microsoft's popular Office suite of business software, is the star of a new Web marketing campaign launched on Wednesday. The campaign and a companion Web site trumpet Microsoft's forthcoming Office XP software as so easy to use that Clippy is out of a job. And even that didn't take, they had to take out a second hit 9 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I