The Definitive Ranking of Forgotten Microsoft Office Assistants (Excluding Clippy)

His name (for the pedantically inclined) is not Clippy. But this is not about Clippit, and it’s not about his many crimes, egregious as they may have been. I hope we can agree that Clippit has paid his debt to society by now – and to the extent that he was only a shadow of more recent technologies designed to butt in and finish our sentences for us whether we like it or not, I hope we can forgive him. No, this is not about Clippit. This is about the others.