Who's that totally annoying guy in Windows Me? I can
call him up again any time I need some help - Yeah
right.
> > What/Who is "Bob" and "Clippy"?
>
> Two of the more asinine things Microsoft has tried
> to foist on us.
>
> "Bob" was an interface developed for, I think,
> Windows 95. Your screen
> was set up as Bob's house and you went to different
> rooms to do
> different things. Childish, dippy and dumb -- and
> it did not last very
> long in the market before MS quietly dropped it. It
> was around for such
> a short period of time I barely remember much about
> it.
>
> "Clippy" is an animated paper clip that appears in
> the lower right hand
> corner when you open programs in MS Office -- I
> forget which version,
> maybe both 97 and 2000. It offers to help you if
> you do not know what
> you are doing. I don't know exactly what help it
> offers since I always
> shut the stupid thing down as soon as it appears
> whenever I use Office
> on someone else's computer. It also has been widely
> ridiculed, and MS
> has announced that it will be deleted from the next
> version of Office.
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