I opened Microsoft Word only to find that clip art has been replaced with something called “stock images,” which, it turns out, is the laziest assemblage of bare-minimum content—vague ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook will simply bring up a Bing Images search window. It would seem that vectorized old-school brick cellphones ...

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 ...

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." ...

Compound this with the fact that images on Bing are simply more up to date than Clip Art’s old photos, and the reasoning behind the change become obvious. Of course, you can’t always use ...

You've still got some time to make that web page/blog/newsletter replete with Halloween badness, and the Microsoft Clip Art Gallery has 750 free Halloween clip art graphics that should help you out.

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. If you’re thi ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files ...