Why Microsoft is getting rid of those iconic illustrations. — -- Clip Art, the iconic collection of images beloved by students and professionals around the world for their whimsy and ease of ...

If you can’t remember, you’re not alone: Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search.

In later years, Microsoft shifted its Clip Art portfolio online, eventually hosting more than 100,000 images. Microsoft dumps Clip Art for Office in favor of Bing Image Search.

Microsoft will no longer offer Clip Art. As an alternative, the company is pointing users to use Bing image search instead. Which is fine, because that’s what everyone was doing anyway.

You’d better enjoy Microsoft’s cheesy Office Clip Art catalog while you can, because it may be going away in favor of Bing. According to a Microsoft support page, the company is retiring its ...

First it was Clippy -- and now it's clip art: After 20 years as the preeminent way of sprucing up a lackluster Word or PowerPoint document, Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place ...

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

Microsoft has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons used in desktop publishing since the 90s.

Microsoft didn’t add clip art files to its software until 1996. It began with 82 images and its library closed with more than 140,000 files. WHAT BING'S IMAGE USAGE RIGHTS MEAN ...

Microsoft Office ditches clip art, offers Bing-powered image search instead. by Blair Hanley Frank on December 1, 2014 at 10:35 am December 1, 2014 at 11:07 am. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...