Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes Microsoft is on its way to a repeat act of creating a loathsome program meant to assist users in Copilot, the tech company’s foray into AI-powered assistance. “We all know now that Microsoft Copilot is basically the new Microsoft Clippy,

Benioff is referring to the widely disparaged animated paperclip Microsoft unveiled as part of Office 96. The "smart" digital helper was designed to assist with certain tasks, but it was viewed more as an annoyance and reviled by users. As such, Benioff's comments had a tone of mockery.

When the cofounder of a giant tech outfit like Salesforce publicly disses a rival product, it's worth noting what they say. And Benioff certainly had some choice words about Microsoft's big AI push.

Copilot Pages is Microsoft's new headline feature, with improvements to user experience for small businesses also being rolled out.

Microsoft Copilot or Microsoft Office's Clippy. But Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently came at both of them. Benioff dismissed Microsoft's Copilot AI features during an interview in the midst of his company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently took a swipe at Microsoft’s Copilot AI, likening it to the much-maligned Clippy, Microsoft’s discontinued digital assistant from the 1990s. During an interview at Salesforce's Dreamforce event in San Francisco,