Culture; April 4, 2023; Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art We used to scoff at it, but in an age of relentless commodification, it now seems like a democratizing ...

Why Microsoft is getting rid of those iconic illustrations. — -- Clip Art, the iconic collection of images beloved by students and professionals around the world for their whimsy and ease of ...

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." ...

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.

Most notably, clip art -- vector art -- is infinitely resizable; bitmap images, which account for about 99.99% of the images on the web (all JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs), cannot be gracefully scaled up.

Clip Art might be facing the same Office-related demise as the great Clippy assistant, but let the images below remind you of the good old times before the modern-era takeover. See More : Microsoft ...

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.

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...