The @Microsoft account reposted a tweet from a Clippy crypto account to its 13 million followers.

Clippy took on a second life online as both a meme and a nostalgia icon.

Microsoft Clippy was back in action for a brief moment this week, marking a rare appearance for the friendly paperclip, who was known for politely barging onto the screen with helpful suggestions, ...

Microsoft's official X account was hacked to promote a Clippy crypto token. Microsoft confirmed the unauthorized access and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microsoft has added Clippy into Microsoft Teams as part of a sticker pack. "Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement! Whether ...

Microsoft's X account was hijacked in October 2026 to promote a fake Clippy crypto token, fooling 13 million followers with a ...

Marc Benioff is never one to pass up a chance to take a jab at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Dreamforce 2026 was no different. The Salesforce CEO used the company’s flagship annual ...

On July 14, Microsoft tweeted a picture of Clippy with the caption “If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy.” "Last, but not least, we had to use this ...

Gordon Freeman. Doomguy. Guybrush Threepwood. Clippy. Okay, so our list of iconic characters on PC gets a bit weird if you start including software mascots, but Clippy was an inescapable part of ...

Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...

Jolly joins a long line of mascots tasked with making companies feel more approachable.