During the mid-1990s, T/Maker specialised in clip art and developed a library of more than 50,000 copyright-free images. Microsoft didn’t add clip art files to its software until 1996.

Microsoft today announced Clip Art is getting a new source for its images: Bing. The Office.com image library that powered the service in Microsoft Office has been killed off.

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...

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." ...

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.