Microsoft announced in a blog post that it is shuttering its Clip Art library in favor of Bing Images, where users can now download royalty free images to use in their projects.

You'd better enjoy Microsoft's cheesy, royalty-free image catalog while you can, as it'll soon give way to the vast spoils of the Internet.

Insider Microsoft does away with Clip Art and replaces it with Bing Images December 1, 2014 - 6:50 pm When was the last time you used Clip Art?

Microsoft has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons used in desktop publishing since the 90s.

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.

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.

A couple weeks ago Dave steered you to the Open Clip Art Library, a nice collection of royalty-free clip art. Great, but what if you need actual photos rather than cutesy line drawings? Head to ...

First it was Clippy -- and now it's clip art: After 20 years as the preeminent way of sprucing up a lackluster Word or PowerPoint document, Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place ...

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 ...

That's because Microsoft has retired its dated clip art gallery and is instead using Bing to supply images within Office documents.