Microsoft is bringing Clippy again to Microsoft Teams, after first resurrecting the annoying paperclip two years in the past after which killing it off after just a few days. A sticker pack can be obtainable in Microsoft Teams quickly that features a number of completely different variations of the anthropomorphic paperclip.

“Yes, it’s true – Clippy has agreed to come out of retirement!” explains Microsoft, confirming the return of Clippy to Microsoft Teams. “Whether you loved him or hated him, Clippy is back with a Retro Sticker Pack in Teams.”

The new retro sticker pack seems to be so much like the identical stickers {that a} staff of Microsoft workers created for Teams greater than two years in the past. Microsoft officers had been fast to close down the undertaking, and a supply on the time revealed “brand police” inside the corporate weren’t completely happy that Clippy had appeared in Microsoft Teams.

Clippy began off life in Office 97, politely providing hints for utilizing Microsoft’s Office software program. People had blended responses to the Groucho-browed interruptions, and Clippy’s stint as Office assistant got here to an finish in 2001 with Office XP. Microsoft had been reluctant to embrace Clippy as a meme in its Office or Windows merchandise till earlier this yr. Clippy has now returned to interchange the usual paperclip emoji in Windows 11, been a part of new Teams backgrounds, and now stars in a sticker pack in Microsoft Teams.