Has Microsoft Patented A Successor To Clippy?
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| Remember Microsoft's Clippy, the annoying animated assistant featured
| in Office, until it was retired in 2004? Like most people, I found
| Clippy variously unnerving, obnoxious, and superfluous.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/02/has_microsoft_p.html
Its removal can be perceived as admission of mistake.
Rekated:
Windows, IE Animations Run Amok
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| Microsoft's "cute" animations, like the infamous Office Clippy, have
| aroused more ire than grateful praise, but they didn't actually do
| any harm--until now. The part of Windows behind the animated yellow
| dog helper in Windows search, called Microsoft Agent, gives malicious
| hackers a route into your PC for spyware or viruses transmitted via
| a drive-by download.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061220/tc_pcworld/128144
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
http://pix.mybll.de/vim.gif
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