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 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.

Hear ye, hear ye! [cue trumpets] Earlier this week, Microsoft shut down the classic clipart gallery. [cue gasps] You’d probably think I’d be applauding the move as a designer. After all, clipart joins ...

Microsoft’s Clip Art. Skip to content. Toggle Navigation. ... Microsoft does away with Clip Art and replaces it with Bing Images December 1, 2014 - 6:50 pm. When was the last time ...

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.".

Microsoft dumps Clip Art for Office in favor of Bing Image Search. Though search engines have an even wider selection of images to choose from, pulling in images from search also poses some problems.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Clip Art might be facing the same Office-related demise as the great Clippy assistant, but let the images below remind you of the good old times before the modern-era takeover. See More : Microsoft ...

Before the days of search engines, placing images into Word documents went like this: Insert > Picture > Clip Art. Those days are long gone. Now, you can ...