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Clip art. Microsoft has just announced that it’s killing off the last trace of clip art in its Office products, instead pointing users in need of imagery toward Bing Image Search. Why?

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.

Why this matters: It’s hard to argue with Microsoft’s logic, as anyone who dips into the Clip Art catalog risks looking like they haven’t touched a computer in a couple of decades. But if ...