Clippy lives again as a software developer brings the Microsoft assistant to the Mac
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The resuscitation capitalizes on peoples memories of bygone software from Microsoft, which last year recaptured the title of worlds most valuable public company as it becomes more centered on subscriptions and cloud services. Devran "Cosmo" Ünal, senior product engineer at optics company Zeiss Group, released the software on the Microsoft-owned GitHub code-storage website last week, and it has drawn attention quickly. " Steven Sinofsky, an Andreessen Horowitz investor and former Microsoft executive who was involved in Clippys development, commented on a post about the software on Product Hunt, a forum for discussions on new digital creations. Among the options were a diamond-shaped multicolored Office logo, a man resembling Albert Einstein named the Genius, and the smirking paper clip Clippit, which came to be known as Clippy. Gaming console makers Nintendo, Sega and Sony have sought to cash in on nostalgia by bringing out smaller versions of their older products.
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