Microsoft announces Clippy for Linux

Date:
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 18:14:15 +0000

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Microsoft Corporation has announced their plans to release the famous Clippy personal assistant for Linux. Ever since being introduced in Microsoft Office 97, Linux users have been clamoring for Clippit known to his friends as Clippy to make Continue Reading

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Microsoft Corporation has announced their plans to release the famous Clippy personal assistant for Linux.

Ever since being introduced in Microsoft Office 97, Linux users have been clamoring for Clippit known to his friends as Clippy to make his way to Linux, stated Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela. We are thrilled to finally make all Linux users dreams come true.

The new, Linux version of Clippy has been enhanced with highly requested features such as integration with the terminal and popular shell
environments.

During the demonstration of a pre-release version, a Microsoft representative typed nano demo.sh into a terminal, resulting in Clippy appearing on-screen It looks like youre writing a Bash script. Would you like help? followed by
a series of help topics.

The first version of Clippy for Linux will ship with the next release of Ubuntu Linux, slated for October of 2021, with general availability for other Linux distributions to follow.

We couldnt be more excited to work with Microsoft to bring the beloved Clippy to Linux users around the globe, stated Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, maker of Ubuntu Linux. Well make Clippy a default option on all new Ubuntu installs as well as upgrades. Based on past experience, were sure Ubuntu
users will love that.

Weve done it, Linux has won, stated Linux creator, Linus Torvalds. Ive always said, well know when weve beaten Microsoft when they bring Clippy to Linux.

Upon hearing about the news, Free Software Foundation founder, Richard Stallman, is reported to have said, What youre referring to as Clippy is, in fact, GNU / Clippy. Or as Ive taken to calling it, GNU + Clippy



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