RIP, Microsoft Clip Art. You Will Be Missed. by Abby Johnston. Dec. 2, 2014. You and I had many late nights together. ... Thank you, Clip Art, for all you have done.

Clip Art was an essential tool for anyone with a vaguely artistic spirit who wanted to create jazzy powerpoint presentations, cool party invitations and homemade thank you cards for rellies.

One of the happiest pieces of news to cross my email lately is the announcement that Microsoft is doing away with its oh-so-tacky clip art and replacing it with something much better and more useful.

"However, you are responsible for respecting others' rights, including copyright," Microsoft noted in a blog post. Clip Art is just the latest 1990's mainstay that Microsoft killed this year.

First it was Clippy -- and now it's clip art: After 20 years as the preeminent way of sprucing up a lackluster Word or PowerPoint document, Microsoft has retired its Clip Art gallery. In its place ...

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