Redmond does away with the iconic 90's favourite for more modern imagery.



From Hexus:

Even though Microsoft's Clip Art has been a staple of using Office products for many years, the reasoning behind the change is pretty obvious. In comparison, Bing Image Search is clearly more up to date, especially with technology images, and can offer high quality imagery perhaps more appropriate than Clip Art's old illustrations. It is thought that most people would prefer to just run a quick image search online anyway, so there's no reason why Microsoft shouldn't simply give users what they want from the interface.

Searching for pictures to use in any of the Office desktop products released in the past decade will show you results from Bing images. There users can continue to browse the images and download the ones they fancy just like in olden times. "For example, searching for "cellphone" gives more variety and modern looking phones instead of the old-school bricks from Clip Art," the blog said. Bing Image Search, as built into Office, uses a copyright Creative Commons filter that's switched on by default to allow for commercial use.

  Microsoft axes Clip Art image library for Bing Image Search