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Microsoft Bob was an add-on for Windows released in 1995, designed to simplify computer use. Its reception was poor, leading ...

If you don’t remember him, Bob was Microsoft’s 1995 answer to why computers were so darn hard to use. [LGR] gives us a nostalgic look back at Bob and concludes that we hardly knew him.

This year’s ugly Microsoft sweater has a suggestion for you: It’s Clippy Past years' sweater themes have included Minesweeper and Windows XP.

Microsoft Bob's glasses are still in, even though his software isn't. Microsoft REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Monday by saying we’ve entered a ...

What makes the Microsoft logo so bad, according to branding boffins.

Bob was a short-lived attempt by Microsoft to make then-still-novel PCs approachable. It’s 29 this month, as XDA Developers reminds us today. That article hauled Bob up from a three-decade-deep ...

Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.

Bob altered your desktop to be a house instead of a desk. He also had helpers including the infamous talking paper clip that suffered slings and arrows inside Microsoft Office long after Bob had ...

Bob is dead. Long live Bob. Microsoft Bob, that is. One of the shortest-lived software titles the company has ever marketed. It was supposed to make computers safe for the rest of us, with big ...

REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we’ve entered a “golden age of computing,” as connectivity, data and processing power open up ...