Microsoft said yesterday that it had decided to shut the service down altogether. "The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop," Microsoft announced on its blog.

Microsoft will no longer offer Clip Art. As an alternative, the company is pointing users to use Bing image search instead. Which is fine, because that’s what everyone was doing anyway.

For Microsoft Office 2013, users can click "insert" and then select "online pictures." In order versions of the program, "insert" and "clip art" will do the trick.

Clip art has not gone away (yet) in the copy of Office that I use, but I’m looking forward to it. Next on Microsoft’s list — and Apple’s, too — should be templates.

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.

Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library, from "only 82 illustrations built into Word 6.0 in 1996 ... to more than 100,000 static and moving images housed online." ...

THE humble and indisputably cheesy Clip Art is about to get punched out, with Microsoft announcing it is shutting down the online library and turning to the web.

Microsoft has announced it has done away with the expansive Clip Art library long associated with its Office suite of software, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft began to offer Clip Art as a free built-in feature of their products in the mid-1990s. From having only 82 Clip Art files in 1996, the collection eventually grew.

Microsoft’s history with Clip Art dates back to 1996 and the launch of Word 6.0, which included a paltry 82 images in its default installation.