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 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.

When Microsoft introduced Clip Art in 1993 as part of Word 6.0, it included just 82 images. In later years, Microsoft shifted its Clip Art portfolio online, eventually hosting more than 100,000 ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files ...

It seems that Microsoft, with its decision to no longer offer clip art with Office, has caused minds to stir and emotions to boil. Instead, Office products will now surface image results from Bing.

Microsoft’s Clip Art has long been a staple of using office products, but in today’s world, most people would rather just run a quick image search online.

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.

Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library, from "only 82 illustrations built into Word 6.0 in 1996 ... to more than 100,000 static and moving images housed online.".

But it appears that Microsoft has had a change of heart. The Next Web reports that Microsoft just integrated clip art back into Office and Windows 10 , as part of a partnership with the Swedish ...

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 ...

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 Office users looking for exactly the right piece of clip art to accent their presentation or document can now turn straight to the internet from their work, thanks to a new Bing-powered ...