As this happened, clip-art makers began emphasizing quantity over quality. Even T/Maker, which built its business on sales of small, high-quality clip-art packages, entered the volume clip-art market.

"T he Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop," Microsoft announced in a blog post yesterday. The collection of images that have graced so many PowerPoint presentations, family ...

Microsoft said Bing Images will provide "higher quality images that are more up-to-date," citing the example of a what Clip Art cell phones look like compared to more modern images. Screen Bean ...