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Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More
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.
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.
"Clip art being replaced with Bing Images"
At first I like: YAY!
And then I was like: DOH!
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
And it's in Comic Sans, amirite?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
MS Clipart wasn't internal, or stored on your local PC since Microsoft Office 2003. It's gone online to download the clipart. In 2003 -> 2010 it cached them locally so that if you downloaded it once, it was cached on your computer so you could re-use it without having to download it again.
What was nice about the Clipart was they were all vector-based images. Meaning they scaled nicely. All the images that come up using the Bing search are 300x400 or close -- which looks like crap if you try to use it. Sure, most of the images in the clipart library were pretty bad and way overused, but at least they were pixelated crap.
If the chair fits, throw it.
I'll open the ".DOC" file that they send via email and see :)
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
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.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
It does.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
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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