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 ...

The process for using Bing Images will be the same as Clip Art. For Microsoft Office 2013, users can click "insert" and then select "online pictures." In order versions of the program, "insert ...

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.

During the mid-1990s, T/Maker specialised in clip art and developed a library of more than 50,000 copyright-free images. Microsoft didn’t add clip art files to its software until 1996.

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 ...

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.