Office assistant
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It‘s an animated character designed to provide help.
Assistants
- Bosgrove (a butler)
- Dot (a shape-shifting and color-shifting smiley-faced red ball)
- Earl (a blue, cartoon cat. A Microsoft spokesperson at a Microsoft Big Day reportedly stated he needed his dialog "cleaned up" before he was released, as he was used as an internal "debugging assistant".)
- Genie (a genie)
- Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein)
- Hoverbot (a robot)
- Kairu the Dolphin (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)
- Max (a Macintosh Plus computer) (Macintosh)
- Merlin (a wizard)
- Mother Nature (a globe)
- Office Logo (a jigsaw puzzle)
- Peedy (a green parrot, whose name was ultimately reused in the first iteration of the notorious BonziBuddy software)
- Power Pup (a superhero dog)
- Robby (a robot)
- Scribble (an origami-esque cat)
- Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare)
- Clippy (a paperclip, the default)
The 1997 assistants can be downloaded from the Microsoft website.
Versions that included it
97-2003. In 2007 it was removed.
How it worked
In Office 97, it was based on Microsoft Bob, then in 2000 and later it used Microsoft Agent. <gallery> Oa97.png|Office assistant in Office 97 <gallery>
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