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		01HNNWZ0MV43FF 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Be Like Clippy I swear I read somewhere that Clippy actually did have spyware in it. But I can't find the source anymore. I thought it was on Hacker News within the last 2 years or so, some Microsoft retrospective on building MS Office.

trinix912 23 days ago [–]

Not Clippy itself, but Office already had usage telemetry in 2003. Whether that's spyware or not is debatable.

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