RIP: Microsoft Kills Clip Art in Favor of Bing Images - Polidicks

[quote=ABC NEWS] Clip Art, the iconic collection of images beloved by students and professionals around the world for their whimsy and ease of inserting into Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, has been laid to rest. Microsoft announced in a blog post that it is shuttering its Clip Art library in favor of Bing Images, where users can now download royalty free images to use in their projects. "Usage of Office’s image library has been declining year-to-year as customers rely more on search engines," a Microsoft Office blog post said announcing the death of the characters the won over hearts and minds in schools and offices around the world in the 1990s and early 2000s. Microsoft said Bing Images will provide "higher quality images that are more up-to-date," citing the example of a what Clip Art cell phones look like compared to more modern images. The process for using Bing Images will be the same as Clip Art. For Microsoft Office 2013, users can click "insert" and then select "online pictures." While the change may be for the best, we're going to miss those iconic "screen beans," that always seemed to effortlessly fit into our presentations, no matter the topic. [/quote] [url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/microsoft-kills-clip-art-favor-bing-images/story?id=27303356]Source[/url]. May the memories of these images live on in our hearts.

What about Clippy?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/36w11Ij.png[/img]

[img]http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/soldier-saluting-18883133.jpg[/img]

Clipart was the shit back in the day, when it actually worked at my school.

When I wanted clipart, we had to insert a CD to do so... Let's just hope that they properly implement bing images to give a better experience than what clipart did in newer versions of office

We should do another round of recreating a movie, music, game cover using only clip art in memories of this! [t]https://i.imgur.com/TAhpY3R.png[/t]

Weird. Office 2010's clip art gallery still seems to be working okay.

RIPart

[QUOTE=Ayane-152;46626436]We should do another round of recreating a movie, music, game cover using only clip art in memories of this! [t]https://i.imgur.com/TAhpY3R.png[/t][/QUOTE] Yeah sure. Not mine btw. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ToeYYId.jpg[/thumb]

[QUOTE=Ayane-152;46626436]We should do another round of recreating a movie, music, game cover [B]using only clip art[/B] in memories of this! [t]https://i.imgur.com/TAhpY3R.png[/t][/QUOTE] I see you hiding in there, shutterstock. [t]http://i.imgur.com/SdghNK7.png[/t]

I remember hiding clip art images in historical photographs for a PowerPoint presentation in school when I was ~14. Clip art used to be dope.

RIP [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/i1POR3.png[/t] [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/UkpceJ.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Yummy Pie;46626514]Yeah sure. Not mine btw. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ToeYYId.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] The spaghetti made it for me

This prompted me to look for death themed clip art in MSOffice 2010, found these two: [img]http://i.imgur.com/gdXD7aZ.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/BokdwxN.png[/img] The fish I can sort of get but who sat down and told the guy who was making all those pictures of inanimate objects with legs and eyes "do a tombstone, people will definitely use that".

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;46626364][img]http://i.imgur.com/36w11Ij.png[/img][/QUOTE] Y2K WAS REAL!!1!1!

The only downside to this is, when the Internet goes down or if your a person who doesn't really have Internet at all. In which case it will force those users to either rely on older versions of word, make trips to places that have Internet, or be forced into making your own stock of pictures.

Here's some fresh OC out of respect to Clip Art [t]http://i.imgur.com/Sj6wcgW.png[/t]