
You may recall that Bob was an attempt to make the interface of Windows 95 (and Windows 3.1 before that) more user-friendly by turning it into a cutesy representation of a house. As noted by the dev, this is one of the most pressing known issues for the application, and FireCube is working on a way around this that’ll hopefully be implemented soon enough.įurther work promised in the near future is the ability to drag and resize Clippy, and FireCube aims to bring more classic characters into the mix alongside the paperclip – like Microsoft Bob. If you haven’t paid for one of those, you won’t be able to fire up Clippy. So, stability is likely to be somewhat wonky for the time being, we’d imagine.Ī further sticking point is that an OpenAI key is required to use this preview version of the Clippy app. To give you some perspective on where we’re at with this app, Clippy for the desktop was put on Github only a couple of days ago, with the developer FireCube observing that there are still issues with random crashes. Analysis: A paperclip that needs some polish
