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For a moment I thought they were bringing back Clippy

Even Microsoft couldn't be THAT evil

Is clippy necessarily evil? I mean we have the floating action button in some apps, clippy just provided FAB like functionality with some personality.

Then again, the FAB is pretty horrendous too most of the time, so maybe it's not the best way.

But I think in some very limited cases it could be a good way to provide shortcuts that bypass huge stacks of menus. Modern apps have gone in a more lightweight direction though so maybe we just don't need that.

When people call Clippy evil, it's not because of his role as an assistant for Microsoft products. Rather, they're referring to his later actions in running several cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes.

It was really a tragic fall.

Well, desperation can drive people to all kinds or things, especially if they are ignorant of the consequences.

If he still had a job, and had better AI, perhaps he wouldn't have turned to crime?

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