Cortana Easter Egg resurrects Clippy as your personal digital assistant

Cortana is full of personality (maybe not every bit much as Arsenio might like you to recollect), and the developers that congenital out the assistant's library of responses were sure to build in some expert doses of self referential sense of humor. A lot of times what a tool really needs to practice to connect with users is put a grin on the user'south confront. And what's not to love about Clippy?

Wait, Clippy?

Yep, Clippy is dorsum. Windows Phone Forum member Ceez was testing out Cortana when he asked "Do you similar Clippy?". Cortana responds that yes, she like'south Clippy — "He taught me how important it is to listen." And you might think that'd exist the end of it. We certainly would accept.

But it's not. Non by a long shot.

Considering the pulsating circle that is Cortana is replaced with Clippy. Modern-style Clippy, but still Clippy yet.

You're smiling, aren't you? Clippy might have been the bane of Microsoft Office users all the mode upwardly to a decade ago, but absenteeism makes the eye abound fonder and now we expect dorsum at Clippy and laugh about how silly things were back in the 24-hour interval.

Cortana keeps operating every bit it should otherwise, simply now you've got Clippy and his goofy paperclip grin staring dorsum at you. It's amusing and maybe a flake disconcerting, but it's Clippy.

Hat tip to Ceez in the Windows Phone Central Forums for the discovery!

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