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.

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 ...

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 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.

Microsoft is killing off Clip Art in favor of Bing Images. Farewell, ‘90s illustrations. Farewell, ‘90s illustrations. by Tom Warren. Source Microsoft Office blog. Dec 1, 2014, 8:15 PM UTC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now those same desktop programs can access Bing image search results more directly to locate their clip art. Microsoft says: "Bing Image Search has higher quality images that are more up-to-date.

Clip art, those delightful images reminiscent of the 90s, are set to become a thing of the past as Microsoft announced today they’re doing away with them in favor of Bing Images.

Microsoft shutters Clip Art portal in favour of Bing Images. Computing firm announces the closure of its free online image library. By Mark Langshaw Published: 02 December 2014.