Retired in 2007
Software companies are reluctant to remove features from programs for fear of disrupting the workflow of customers using older versions of their programs. The most visible (and vocal) customers are large corporations with countless desktops. Nonetheless, sometimes you have to make the hard choices if features are not used often, if they cause more problems than they are worth, or if their functionality has been assimilated into a newer, better feature. Here is a list of retired (or assimilated) features:
The Office Assistant. The animated Help characters were, shall we say, not as popular as was hoped. Alas, poor Clippit, we hardly knew ye. Please send remembrances to the Microsoft Bob Memorial Fund for Homeless Virtual Personalities. ...
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