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?

From stackoverflow

• Andy Retires

• I have never heard about this, so I was curious. Mike Akers found the archived image:

  

  Behold, Andy, the sadly defunct C# mascot..

  Update: an ex-coworker pointed out that this mascot -- the image and name -- is probably based on Anders Hejlsberg. I feel like an idiot for not figuring that out on my own! :)

  (mirrored from original web archive source)

  Greg : I think that image explains it all...

  suhair : This is the real Andy?

  Mike Akers : 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....

  Null303 : So Andy is PC from the Mac ads?

• Because Clippy got him fired.