Comment by bitwize

The product manager for Bob, Melinda French, would go on to marry Bill Gates, which goes a long way to explaining why Bob was the fetch that Microsoft kept trying to make happen. Its cutesy avatar technology would go on to power Clippy, the Windows XP search dog (actually a 3D version of one of the Bob characters), and be available as an API for use by third parties (most famously Bonzi Buddy).