Microsoft Brings Clippy Back to Life as an Emoji in Office Apps
Jul. 18, 2021Clippy Returns in a New Avatar
Microsoft recently unveiled over 1,800 redesigned emojis, all of which it aims to add toWindows 11and Microsoft 365 products in the coming days. The new emojis have been completely redesigned by Microsoft to turn them from 2D view to 3D design, and reflect the company’snew Fluent Design language. So, amongst the new emojis. the Redmond giant has replaced the paperclip emoji with a glyph of Clippy.Via: The Verge
However, the company’s official “Emoji-logist” Claire Anderson thought of adding the adorable assistant as a paper clip emoji in the new emoji set to replace the previous 2D and boring paper clip glyph. Anderson thinks that it would give users a healthy dose of nostalgia while using Microsoft products.
“I grew up using Clippy, and it just seemed like a fun little Easter egg,”AndersonsaidtoThe Verge.“We just all imagined that delight when you put the paperclip in a Microsoft product and then all of a sudden, you get this dose of nostalgia,”she further added. You can check out this video for a first look at other new 3D emojis.
Microsoft evenshared a tweetrecently, where it stated that if the tweet gets more than 20,000 likes, the company willreplace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy. The Redmond giant says that it would initially roll out the new emojis to Windows and Teams sometime in the upcoming holiday season, the same period as theWindows 11release. They will be later available in other Office apps such as Yammer and Outlook.
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