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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by zeveb on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:21AM (#23790757)
> I saw a presentation by one of the lead designers around the time that it was introduced and he certainly made a good case for how the older interface had accumulated way too much cruft.

I have also seen well-intentioned arguments for why Clippy was a good idea … but he wasn't.

To this day I miss the Word 5.1 on Macintosh System 7. That was more-or-less the Platonic ideal of a word processor; it's been all downhill since.

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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by ocdtrekkie on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:38AM (#23791868)
Clippy was literally the precursor of things like Alexa and Siri today. The technology wasn't there to back it, but the idea of an anthropomorphic assistant has literally come around to the mainstream today.
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