Clippy is no longer in Jail to get set free but as an emoji throughout Microsoft apps.
The model of Microsoft Office, Clippy, now turned into an emoji.
Di you know there is a World Emoji Day? Yes, you can’t make this stuff up; it gets celebrated on July 17. A series of new emojis got introduced by Microsoft on World Emoji Day. They were all fun, but the significance of Clippy can only get understood by millennials.
The revisited character got teased by Caire Anderson, a Microsoft Design Team member, on its Medium blog. Furthermore, there was a philosophy behind the new emoji also posted on this blog.
In the blog, it stated:
Even before the pandemic obscured the lines between work and life, notions of professionalism had been evolving toward emotional honesty and playfulness. To ensure our new designs reflected this, design researcher Meghan Stockdale worked closely with us to rethink graphical expressions of professionalism.
The blog header shows off emojis and how it is a farewell from the existing emojis on Windows 10.
They are showing playfulness, something that Microsoft has not gotten known for in its multi-decade history. Moreover, the emojis look like they got made to match the upcoming update of Windows 11. It is a revisited interpretation of an operating system that has gotten focused on productivity.
Over the last year or so, the Microsoft design team has been working on refreshing its 1,888 emoji. They went with the three-dimensional appearance instead of the two-dimensional ones and choose to animate most of them.
I can imagine the influence the heart eye emoji shown in the preview video of Microsoft will have on Skype, especially when you remember the days when animated emojis were available in the app.
Clippy is the animated paperclip from the past of Microsoft Office and needs its long-gone tribute. The boring old paperclip emoji with the sentient bulging eyes got replaces by a new emoji. However, it has not gotten known yet whether the new clipboard emoji will pop up and ask if you need assistance like the one before.
If you want, you can access a few of the latest Microsoft emojis through Flipgrid, the app students and educators use for video chat. This holiday season, Microsoft Teams and Windows will get the new emoji, but Yammer, Outlook, and other apps will get their emoji update in 2022.
