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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...