Microsoft just announced that it's replacing the cheesetastic images with web-searchable galleries, effectively ending clip art as we know it. This was inevitable, probably, but it also marks the end ...

First it was Clippy -- and now it's clip art: After 20 years as the preeminent way of sprucing up a lackluster Word or PowerPoint document, Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place, ...

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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. Except maybe ...

Back in the dial-up days before round-the-clock wireless internet access became ubiquitous, I thought about computers differently. In fact, until I became a teenager with a social life, the internet ...

Microsoft is sending its Office clip art to the digital beyond, where it shall rest in glory with Clippy, Zune, and the rest of the Redmond saints. In other words, those wonky, yet charming images ...