Microsoft had already migrated its collection of Clip Art to an online portal. But alas, most people weren’t even bothering with the portal any more, according to Microsoft. In all likelihood ...

According to Microsoft’s blog post about the change, the existing clip art gallery has seen declining use as more people reach outside Office to find images on search engines, so a change makes ...

I've been sitting on planes and seen people walk by me with them ... and regardless of Microsoft's latest announcement, Clip Art's images are likely to keep turning up. Earlier editions of ...

Those people earn 60% of the revenue on the ... (for publications and other corporate use). Why is Microsoft providing clip art again two years after killing it off? We’ve reached out for ...

Much to the sadness of people who loved to hate Clip Art ... and Startup/Scaleup packages Since Clip Art closed, Microsoft users have been directed to open Bing image search, but there’s ...

but misses the point that most people aren’t all that creative. So when Microsoft provides a clip art library, these folks use it like the images came from a great museum. Not realizing that ...

Microsoft’s Clip Art has long been a staple of using office products, but in today’s world, most people would rather just run a quick image search online. Compound this with the fact that ...

many of them drawn as cartoons — had slowed as people used the internet instead. Microsoft said yesterday that it had decided to shut the service down altogether. "The Office.com Clip Art and ...

Clip art. Microsoft has just announced that it’s ... in need of imagery toward Bing Image Search. Why? Because most people are just getting their images online anyway. Bing images won’t ...

The deleted blog post doesn’t say exactly why Microsoft is killing Clip Art now, but explains that usage of these images has been in a steady decline as more people rely on search engines.

In 1996, Microsoft added it to Office ... and cartoonish actions depicted in clip art were often used to enliven the work of people who had no access to professional imagery.