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Originally Posted by jswinden
 No I was just making fun of good ol' Clippy. He was actually a good idea in theory I guess, but he mostly just annoyed the heck out of us by popping up way too often. Kind of the same issue we get with Alexa and Google Home, and no doubt with HomePod when it arrives. |
Back in the days when CPU cycles and byte of RAM were very expensive, and MS had already chosen to bloat up Word to the point where you needed a state-of-the-art workstation just so that it could keep up with a human typist and do basic WYSIWYG functionality, they then decided it would be a neat idea to slow things down, and bloat them up even more by adding an animated graphical cartoon (complete with silly sound effects, IIRC...in a business app...) to the help system.
It wasn't Clippy's fault. He tried his best. I blame the parent, not the child.