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Enlarge / Microsoft's newest disfigured sweater is Clippy- and Office-themed.
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I'm not ever a instrumentality of firm whimsy—like erstwhile brands' Twitter accounts person "attitude" oregon erstwhile companies enactment unneurotic cringe-worthy April Fools' Day pranks—but I bash bask Microsoft's now-yearly contented of releasing disfigured sweaters with retro Windows patterns printed connected them. Two years ago, the patterns were MS Paint- and Windows logo-themed. Last year's signifier paid homage to Windows 3.1-era Minesweeper. And this year's brings backmost an aged frenemy: Clippy.
Though his days arsenic a ubiquitous Microsoft Office mascot ended erstwhile Office 2007 was released, Clippy has recovered a 2nd beingness as Windows 11's mentation of the paperclip emoji. Clippy was not, unfortunately, open-sourced on with the remainder of Microsoft's emoji designs implicit the summer, owing to his presumption arsenic a copyrighted character.
Clippy is the leader of the caller sweaters, but determination are different small Office- and Windows-themed touches, too—an old-school Windows logo connected the back, the Office ruler connected the top, immoderate formatting buttons connected the sleeves, and falling stacks of insubstantial throughout.
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Unlike tons of aboriginal sweaters, Microsoft's is really a knit sweater and not a sweatshirt with a signifier printed connected it.
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On the back, you tin spot much of the Office ruler positive stacks of paper.
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The Clippy sweater is disposable successful sizes tiny done 3XL and costs $75 nary substance what size you get. That's a spot connected the pricey side, but dissimilar a batch of disfigured sweaters, the Clippy one does look to beryllium an existent knit sweater and not a sweatshirt with a signifier printed connected it. As portion of its promotional efforts astir the sweater, Microsoft besides says it volition donate $100,000 to the College Success Foundation.
There's nary connection connected whether we tin expect sweaters honoring the galore different Microsoft Office Assistant designs, similar the reddish dot oregon the Einstein-looking feline oregon the small robot. Rover, the yellowish canine from Microsoft Bob and the Windows XP hunt dialog, is besides MIA.
