October 3rd, 2023

A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Some time ago, I shared some feedback submitted to the developer documentation team about the removal of the Office cat assistant. I turned it into a reminiscence about Earl the Cat, but let’s return to the most likely Office assistant cat: Links the Cat.

A bug was submitted about Links the Cat complaining that it was “licking itself suggestively”. I don’t know which specific animation the complaint was about, but maybe it was this one, where Links grooms its leg.

I don’t know long it took to investigate, but the bug was eventually resolved as “By Design” with the comment, “My cat does this.”

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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  • Sunil Joshi · Edited

    I loved Links and Rover when I was younger. Perhaps, we’ll see a return to something like agents now that we have features like Copilot in Windows / Office.

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