When was the last time you used Clip Art? 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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft is quietly killing off Clip Art, its database of low-fidelity, two-dimensional vector images that helped many a college student in the 1990s bring color to their school projects.

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.

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 ...

Numerous alternatives to Clip Art exist across the web, including clipart.com and Open Clip Art. Microsoft recommends using Bing search, which is built in to Microsoft Office, instead.

Goodbye, Clip Art. The image library that has powered Microsoft's Office productivity suite since the 1990s is no more. Replacing Clip Art will be royalty-free images curated by Microsoft's search ...

THE humble and indisputably cheesy Clip Art is about to get punched out, with Microsoft announcing it is shutting down the online library and turning to the web.

That's because Microsoft has retired its dated clip art gallery and is instead using Bing to supply images within Office documents.

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.