Microsoft said Bing Images will provide "higher quality images that are more up-to-date," citing the example of a what Clip Art cell phones look like compared to more modern images.

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 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.

Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files thanks to the thousands of office workers and students who used the images as a way to "improve" their documents. These days there ...

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, because it may be going away in favor of Bing. According to a Microsoft support page, the company is retiring its ...

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.

Royalty free images within Office applications will now be served by Bing Images. Microsoft "Usage of Office's image library has been declining year-to-year as customers rely more on search ...

With clip art, users would be presented with old-school brick phones a la Zach Morris. Bing, on the other hand, provides modern images with a bit more variety.

Bing images won’t be vector art (and thus not as resizable), and they probably won’t be as gloriously ’90s, but you’ll at least have a whole lot more options. The Bing Image Search built ...

Now those same desktop programs can access Bing image search results more directly to locate their clip art. Microsoft says: "Bing Image Search has higher quality images that are more up-to-date.