Microsoft is sending its Office clip art to the digital beyond, where it shall rest in glory with Clippy, Zune, and the rest of the Redmond saints. In other words, those wonky, yet charming images ...

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.

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 ...