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This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons like. Clippit, the infamous Microsoft Office assistant, lived like a firework, or perhaps like a low-flying helicopter: bright, in-your-face, a streak across the sky, and unbelievably annoying. Albert Bowden II / Flickr He (and he is the right pronoun for this particular mindless bundle of code, but more on that in a moment) was introduced in November 1996. He was refined three years later, in Microsoft Office 2000.
He went into retirement two years later, when he was turned off by default. And he finally departed this digital veil in 2007, when Microsoft Office dismissed him all together. Surely somewhere “Clippy,” as most know him, frolics still, winking at odd intervals, randomly interrupting the to ask if he needs help writing a letter. “We did a bunch of focus-group testing” on Clippy and the other Microsoft Office assistants, Ho, “and the results came back kind of negative.” Most of the women thought the characters were too male and that they were leering at them. So we’re sitting in a conference room.
There’s me and, I think, like, 11 or 12 guys, and we’re going through the results, and they said, ‘I don’t see it. I just don’t know what they’re talking about.’ And I said, ‘Guys, guys, look, I’m a woman, and I’m going to tell you, these animated characters are male-looking.’ Ho continues, saying that the engineers in the room were willing to throw out the focus-group-provided data—data which they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for—because it didn’t cohere to their expectations. The software shipped with 10 male assistants and two female assistants, she adds. With Clippy, thankfully, the consequences were less grave. The feature was eventually just thrown out.
And that’s something, by the way, that a writer for these pages can assert some small responsibility for. In 1999, James Fallows, The Atlantic’s national correspondent, worked at Microsoft for six months as a sort of writer-consultant. “In my spare time, I was inveighing against the maddening feature generally called Clippy,”. In the next version of Office to be released, the version that he was working on, Clippy was turned off by default.
Soon Clippy was eliminated all together. As Fallows has written of: “Somehow I feel a solidarity with the gantry engineers who helped prepare for Yuri Gagarin’s launch. We all were part of something larger that moved humanity ahead.” We want to hear what you think about this article. To the editor or write to [email protected].
This is part of an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons like. Clippit, the infamous Microsoft Office assistant, lived like a firework, or perhaps like a low-flying helicopter: bright, in-your-face, a streak across the sky, and unbelievably annoying. Albert Bowden II / Flickr He (and he is the right pronoun for this particular mindless bundle of code, but more on that in a moment) was introduced in November 1996. He was refined three years later, in Microsoft Office 2000. He went into retirement two years later, when he was turned off by default. And he finally departed this digital veil in 2007, when Microsoft Office dismissed him all together.
Surely somewhere “Clippy,” as most know him, frolics still, winking at odd intervals, randomly interrupting the to ask if he needs help writing a letter. “We did a bunch of focus-group testing” on Clippy and the other Microsoft Office assistants, Ho, “and the results came back kind of negative.” Most of the women thought the characters were too male and that they were leering at them. So we’re sitting in a conference room. There’s me and, I think, like, 11 or 12 guys, and we’re going through the results, and they said, ‘I don’t see it. I just don’t know what they’re talking about.’ And I said, ‘Guys, guys, look, I’m a woman, and I’m going to tell you, these animated characters are male-looking.’ Ho continues, saying that the engineers in the room were willing to throw out the focus-group-provided data—data which they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for—because it didn’t cohere to their expectations. The software shipped with 10 male assistants and two female assistants, she adds. With Clippy, thankfully, the consequences were less grave.
The feature was eventually just thrown out. And that’s something, by the way, that a writer for these pages can assert some small responsibility for. In 1999, James Fallows, The Atlantic’s national correspondent, worked at Microsoft for six months as a sort of writer-consultant.
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“In my spare time, I was inveighing against the maddening feature generally called Clippy,”. In the next version of Office to be released, the version that he was working on, Clippy was turned off by default. Soon Clippy was eliminated all together.
As Fallows has written of: “Somehow I feel a solidarity with the gantry engineers who helped prepare for Yuri Gagarin’s launch. We all were part of something larger that moved humanity ahead.” We want to hear what you think about this article. To the editor or write to [email protected].
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