The idea behind Clippy sounded awesome. Almost as awesome as the outcome was terrible. Unfortunately, it sounds like disk space was the big killer for Office Assistant, and because of Clippy’s supreme failure, it might be years before we get a functional Bayesean inference model in a mainline piece of software.
Bonus points for the 1990s visual technology.
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 