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 ...

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.

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.

Clip art, those delightful images reminiscent of the 90s, are set to become a thing of the past as Microsoft announced today they’re doing away with them in favor of Bing Images.

According to Microsoft’s blog post about the change, the existing clip art gallery has seen declining use as more people reach outside Office to find images on search engines, so a change makes ...

The Clip Art feature in Office now taps Bing’s copyright filter based on the Creative Commons licensing system. This means you get royalty-free images that you can use, share, or modify for ...

You’d better enjoy Microsoft’s cheesy Office Clip Art catalog while you can, ... Microsoft suggests searching on Bing Images for visuals that are free to use under a Creative Commons license.

Choose from Office clip art, Bing images, or your own OneDrive storage. Office.com clip art still works for now, so charge ahead if that’s what you want to use. Type in your search term and then ...

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 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.

Your school papers and presentations — littered with clip art images to fill space — are now vintage collectibles. In an official blog post, Microsoft announced it was bidding adieu to its ...