It’s 1997. You’re hooked up to a modem and are typing away on a Microsoft document when an animated paperclip pops onto the screen. “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help?” was a ...

COMMENTARY--Last week, Microsoft announced that its much-maligned Office Assistant, a.k.a. "Clippy," would be turned off by default in the just-released Microsoft Office XP. The official spin was that ...

Baby boomer Bill Gates may remember the 1960s "Paul is dead" rumor that dogged Beatle Paul McCartney. Now, the Microsoft chairman is spinning his own urban myth for the millennium generation: Clippy's ...