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.

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.

If you can’t remember, you’re not alone: Microsoft’s Office team today announced it is doing away with Clip Art’s online image library and replacing it with Bing Image Search.

These days there are a large number of free images available on the web, and Microsoft is recognizing this by killing off its Clip Art portal in recent versions Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

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.

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 has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons used in desktop publishing since the 90s.

Microsoft today announced Clip Art is getting a new source for its images: Bing. The Office.com image library that powered the service in Microsoft Office has been killed off.

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 ...

Washington-based Microsoft made the announcement on the Office blog. Customers can still add their own photos, as well as images from Bing Search. Clip Art images pictured.

Even though Microsoft's Clip Art has been a staple of using Office products for many years, the reasoning behind the change is pretty obvious. In comparison, Bing Image Search is clearly more up ...

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 ...