Microsoft is killing off Clip Artwork in favor of Bing Pictures

Again within the ‘90s, Clip Artwork took over Phrase and PowerPoint information because of the hundreds of workplace employees and college students who used the pictures as a option to “enhance” their paperwork. Lately there are numerous free photographs out there on the internet, and Microsoft is recognizing this by killing off its Clip Artwork portal in current variations Phrase, PowerPoint, and Outlook. “The Workplace.com Clip Artwork and picture library has closed store,” explains Microsoft’s Doug Thomas. “Utilization of Workplace’s picture library has been declining year-to-year as clients rely extra on engines like google.”

Whereas most references to Clip Artwork disappeared with Workplace 2013, customers have been capable of insert the old-school photographs into paperwork utilizing an Workplace.com Clip Artwork choice. That’s now being changed by Bing Pictures, with Microsoft filtering photographs to make sure they’re based mostly on the Inventive Commons licensing system for private or business use. Many of the new photographs are rather more fashionable, as a substitute of the illustrated remnants of the previous. Clip Artwork is likely to be dealing with the identical Workplace-related demise as the good Clippy assistant, however let the pictures beneath remind you of the nice previous instances earlier than the modern-era takeover.