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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Another feature replaced with tracking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another feature that was previously offline that has now been replaced with an online only feature that will track you.

    I have nothing inherently against online features but the fact that they /always/ go hand in hand with tracking causes me to be against.

  2. Re:Good riddance by operagost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And it's in Comic Sans, amirite?

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  3. Re: Good riddance by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We should make an email viewer that de-moronifies school emails. In all fairness to the teachers, the content delivery systems that they are stuck with are also very painful.

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  4. Re:Remove != Improve by binarybum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    exactly. I don't know why the responses here are so positive. Getting rid of a primarily vector based library that takes up little space and is available locally is not a great move at all. If you don't like it, fine don't use it. But your points are well taken - this move to online everything is tedious, slow, and frustrating. I need my documents in a cloud, but I sure don't need my bloody word processor in the cloud.
    Think Global, install Local.

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