Skype—the OG of online calls, the program that made you yell "Can you hear me now?!" at your monitor—is officially having the plug pulled on May 5, 2025.

Microsoft believed adding a human-like face ... If developers had indeed leaned into the basic concept of many memes about Clippy over the years, it would undoubtedly have been a winner.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the Clippy we always wanted back when we were typing away on Word, but digital assistants were too primitive and underdeveloped. It’s been over 25 years since Clippy ...

But for those of us who remember using Microsoft Office in the nineties and early 2000s, the concept raises the specter of Clippy - the paper-clip-shaped, animated help tool that was supposed to ...