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.

Microsoft first introduced Clip Art with the release of Word 6.0 in 1993. ... The inventory of Clip Art was very limited at first, with just 82 illustrations from which to choose.

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Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

In 1996, as part of its default installation, Microsoft Word 6.0 included 82 WMF clip-art files. (Compare that to today: Microsoft's Office product suite currently offers clip art as part of more ...