Those of us who "strongly dislike" the MS Office Assistant --
the intrusive animation of a paper clip -- can take heart in
a story on CNN:
"Brian Valentine, general manager of the Application and Tools Group at
Microsoft, and product manager Tom Rizzo showed developers how to get
rid of the agent with a line of Visual Basic code that Microsoft will
post to its Web site for downloading."
The full story is at:
< http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/16/clipdeath.idg/ >
--Glenn Cole
Software al dente, Inc.
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