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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Microsoft Kills Off Clip Art, Adds Bing Image Search [Watch (HLS stream): Microsoft Kills Off Clip Art, Adds Bing Image Search](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/X2Kfe9ms.m3u8) (1:28)  _Published 2014-12-03. Microsoft, in a blog post, announced the shuttering of its clip art library. Instead, users are instructed to use Bing Image Search to find clip art._ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:35 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Microsoft Office 2016](/video/Bs6yEhG6/) ### Microsoft Office 2016 [Microsoft Tries To Keep Users Away From Chrome And Firefox](/video/zAXRLqwf/) ### Microsoft Tries To Keep Users Away From Chrome And Firefox [Microsoft Band Live Healthier](/video/JW6BV3Jg/) ### Microsoft Band Live Healthier --- ## Transcript Gone are the days of peculiar, over saturated Clip Art gracing the pages of your Microsoft Word documents. Microsoft announced via a now removed blog post its office. com Clip Art library is no more. Instead it's directing users to find royalty- free images, through it's Bing image search. It's unclear why the company removed the original blog post, but support pages still confirm the end of Microsoft's Clip Art. Microsoft says it's Bing image tool provides up- to- date images, at higher qualities than the Clip Art. Clip art media of yesteryear. Bing will also help you filter out copyright protected images. That way the presentation you're working on. You know the one full of business people shaking hands? Won't get you in trouble. The move is in response to usage patterns within Microsoft's Office Suite. Simply put. Fewer people are using Office's clip art library and more are using search engines to track down the perfect image. And given Microsoft Office's recent office everywhere initiative, it makes sense the company would want a more reliable modern image library for its Office products on iPhone, on Android, or any number of PCs. In the end, we think a writer for Slate provides the perfect obituary for the awkward little images. It's hard to say goodbye to the little vector images that scaled so perfectly in our first slide decks and work reports. They added lightness and variety in the early years, and then transitioned effortlessly when we all started using them ironically. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Microsoft Kills Off Clip Art, Adds Bing Image Search","description":"Microsoft, in a blog post, announced the shuttering of its clip art library. 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