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+6  Q: 

Why was the C# mascot 'Andy' retired?

In the early days of C# there was a mascot for C# called 'Andy' and Microsoft retired it.

Why did they do this?

Does anyone have a picture of him?

+7  A: 

Andy Retires

abrereton  2008-12-04 05:10:47
+4  A: 
Jeff Atwood  2008-12-04 06:10:14
I think that image explains it all...
Greg  2008-12-04 06:27:59
This is the real Andy?
suhair  2008-12-04 06:36:05
Well it comes from the archive.org history of http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/01/29/64429.aspx so I'd say it's legit....
Mike Akers  2008-12-04 06:39:06
So Andy is PC from the Mac ads?
Null303  2008-12-04 18:28:15
+1  A: 

Because Clippy got him fired.

Ray Vega  2008-12-04 18:22:21

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