Microsoft announced in a blog post that it is shuttering its Clip Art library in favor of Bing Images, where users can now download royalty free images to use in their projects. Screen Bean ...

One of the happiest pieces of news to cross my email lately is the announcement that Microsoft is doing away with its oh-so-tacky clip art and replacing it with something much better and more useful.

During the mid-1990s, T/Maker specialised in clip art and developed a library of more than 50,000 copyright-free images. Microsoft didn’t add clip art files to its software until 1996.

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.

On Monday, a post on Microsoft’s Office blog claimed that the Clip Art option would be nixed from the desktop version of Office, but that post has since been removed. We’ve reached out to ...

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 began to offer Clip Art as a free built-in feature of their products in the mid-1990s. From having only 82 Clip Art files in 1996, the collection eventually grew.

Microsoft has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, ... Royalty free images within Office applications will now be served by Bing Images.