Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 2, 2014 @01:52AM from the what-do-you-want-to-see dept.

hypnosec writes Microsoft has finally bid a goodbye to the age-old Clip Art image library found in its Office products as its usage has been declining over the years. Redmond replaced the Clip Art's online image library with Bing Image Search. This means that people searching for online images inside an Office app will now be directed to a gallery powered by Bing Images that will bring in results from around the web. Bing's copyright filter based on the Creative Commons licensing system will let users get royalty-free images which they can use, share, or modify for either personal or commercial use.

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No longer OOXML ISO compliant then? by badger.foo · 2014-12-02 02:06 · Score: 2, Informative

If I remember correctly, the OOXML ISO standard that was rushed through some years back included specifications for a clipart library not entirely unlike the Microsoft Office one. I suppose this move means that Microsoft has give up on adhering to its wholly-owned ISO standard.

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Re:Good riddance by EvilSS · 2014-12-02 05:57 · Score: 4, Informative

If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
It does.

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