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.

There are many things that the next generation of geek won’t get to experience. The sound of the 56k modem connecting when your parents are sleeping in the next room. Burning CDs. Being ...

which already makes it possible to search images by different visual styles, just added clip art and line drawings today, according to the company’s blog. The site also recently introduced the ...

Office.com clip art still works for now, so charge ahead if that’s what you want to use. Type in your search term and then select your favorite zany image. It’ll appear directly in the file ...

Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library ... Microsoft will now send Office customers to its Bing search engine for images that are cleared through the Creative ...

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 ...

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.

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.

"Bing Image Search has higher quality images that are ... and modern looking phones instead of the old-school bricks from Clip Art." Ironically the image Microsoft used to illustrate this (above ...