Microsoft's Cloud Evangelist Adds 'Clippy' To Their Business Card (msn.com) 49
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider's update on Microsoft Clippy, the animated cartoon paperclip that was Office's virtual assistant until the early 2000s, that "everyone loved to hate."
After 18 years, has it become retro chic? When Chloe Condon, a newly hired Microsoft cloud evangelist, ordered new business cards, she avoided the standard corporate look and instead went with Clippy-themed cards and tweeted them out... They've got a picture of Clippy on the front and on the back they say, "It looks like you are trying to get in touch with Chloe," with her contact info listed below...
Naturally, the Clippy The Paperclip Twitter account loved these cards. He tweeted, "@chloecondon It looks like you're using my likeness on your new business cards. Would you like help with WAIT I'M ON BUSINESS CARDS NOW?!" And then former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky, the man credited for developing Microsoft Office into a massive hit, noticed the cards and tweeted, "I suppose if you live long enough, others will wear your failures as a badge of honor...."
After four years of scorn, Clippy was officially retired in 2001. Sinofsky tells Business Insider that the company even issued a funny press release about it.... Microsoft even held an official retirement party for him in San Francisco, too. Sinfosky shared a photo from that party with us... If you look closely, you'll see unemployed Clippy is actually using the party thrown in his honor to collect charity for himself and beg for food.
After 18 years, has it become retro chic? When Chloe Condon, a newly hired Microsoft cloud evangelist, ordered new business cards, she avoided the standard corporate look and instead went with Clippy-themed cards and tweeted them out... They've got a picture of Clippy on the front and on the back they say, "It looks like you are trying to get in touch with Chloe," with her contact info listed below...
Naturally, the Clippy The Paperclip Twitter account loved these cards. He tweeted, "@chloecondon It looks like you're using my likeness on your new business cards. Would you like help with WAIT I'M ON BUSINESS CARDS NOW?!" And then former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky, the man credited for developing Microsoft Office into a massive hit, noticed the cards and tweeted, "I suppose if you live long enough, others will wear your failures as a badge of honor...."
After four years of scorn, Clippy was officially retired in 2001. Sinofsky tells Business Insider that the company even issued a funny press release about it.... Microsoft even held an official retirement party for him in San Francisco, too. Sinfosky shared a photo from that party with us... If you look closely, you'll see unemployed Clippy is actually using the party thrown in his honor to collect charity for himself and beg for food.
Garbage news (Score:4, Insightful)
This is a new low.
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News for Nerds, Site In Tatters
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Why oh why would you taunt us with the spectre of Clippy?
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I agree, too soon. Too soon.
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Wordplay, heh? I better arm myself.
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Re:Garbage news (Score:5, Insightful)
Bullshit. As a card carrying nerd (I laminated it myself), this gave me a good laugh. We all loved to hate clippy and kept making "it looks like you're trying to" looks long after it ceased to be topical. It never gets old.
If you find yourself short of a sense of humor about nerdy topics, you could always just skip over the story rather than come on here and angrily let everyone know just how dour you really are.
To Quote John Hurt in Spaceballs... (Score:1)
to quote everyone on slashdot (Score:1)
Please, go away. [youtube.com]
You and your random, drive-by, low quality nonsense karma-whoring shitposts.
It looks like you're trying to be hip... (Score:2, Funny)
Would you like some suggestions?
Re:Cloud evangelist!? Women in Tech (Score:4, Funny)
I'm just wandering what a cloud camp revival looks like.
And lo', Google Drive sayeth to me....SINNERS shall not upload!!
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I'm just wandering what a cloud camp revival looks like.
Team-building exercises combining Agile and XP, and at break time Uncle Bob plays with a laser pointer on the big screen for Alms.
Then three hours of chanting in Smalltalk, followed by Aaron Patterson preaching about the intersection between programming exercises and spandex.
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Use her referral code when you print your own (Score:1)
Microsoft doesn't pay her, apparently, so "ya girl" needs to get her some extra affiliate marketing dough.
Is this an ad? (Score:1)
Reads like Slashdot is selling astroturfed news articles now. Nobody cares if a devrel puts a tired meme on their business card.
Tux business cards (Score:1)
To borrow from Mean Girls (Score:3)
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Clippy suggested it to the editors...
Clippy says it looks like you have comcast do you (Score:2)
Clippy says it looks like you have Comcast do you want to pay the $50 unlimited add on (and save your self from big overage fees) before starting X-box online steaming?
Clippit not Clippt (Score:2)
"Clippy's" name was never Clippy, it was always Clippit.
- Adds 'Clippy' To Their Business Card ? (Score:2)
Since it's only one person, wouldn't it be "Adds 'Clippy' To Her Business Card" ?
Just a thought.
Oh, and thank you for capitalizing the first character of every word. It really makes the topic more exciting.
No (Score:2)
Nope, people print business cards by the hundreds. It would be "Adds 'Clippy' to Her Business Cards"
No change (Score:2)
After 18 years, has it become retro chic?
No. No, it has not.
Clippy went way beyond being irritating, it was the perfect symbol of Microsoft's condescension to its customers and its prioritizing showing off fancy UI features over user productivity. (Why does Microsoft's software call my documents "My Documents"? That's the way adults talk to two-year-olds.)
The hate was and still is well-deserved. A business card with Clippy will tell me everything I need to know about a person's judgment and attitude.
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the perfect symbol of Microsoft's condescension to its customers and its prioritizing showing off fancy UI features over user productivity.
That would be Windows 10. Windows 10 is nothing but an evolved version of Clippy. The OS serves no useful purpose other than to get in the way of what you want to do by offering hints, suggestions, and irrelevant pieces of software, not to mention hiding the things you do need to use from you.
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The OS serves no useful purpose other than to get in the way of what you want to do by offering hints, suggestions, and irrelevant pieces of software, not to mention hiding the things you do need to use from you.
Huh. Mine doesn't. Possibly because I occasionally whip my computer with a cat'o'nine tails.
You can turn that shit off, you know, if you have the patience to find out how.
Who gives a crap??? (Score:2)