Theage.com says over the years, Clip Art grew into an expansive library, from "only 82 illustrations built into Word 6.0 in 1996 ... to more than 100,000 static and moving images housed online." ...

Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files thanks to the thousands of office workers and students who used the images as a way to "improve" their documents.

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.

Microsoft has announced it has done away with the expansive Clip Art library long associated with its Office suite of software, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons ...