sonofsanta Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Oddly nostalgic and saddened by this, even though I haven't used ClipArt in years and years (which is the point, I guess). But so many hours of my early years were spent trawling the gallery of never-quite-right images that just seeing the screen cap in the article gave me a little shiver. Microsoft axes Clip Art image library for Bing Image Search - Software - News - HEXUS.net Microsoft's Office team has announced that it is axing the Office.com Clip Art online image library. Users will begin to be directed to a new image source; Bing Image Search. "The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop," the Microsoft's Office blog said. "Usage of Office's image library has been declining year-to-year as customers rely more on search engines."
Sunnyknight Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Oddly nostalgic and saddened by this, even though I haven't used ClipArt in years and years (which is the point, I guess). But so many hours of my early years were spent trawling the gallery of never-quite-right images that just seeing the screen cap in the article gave me a little shiver. Microsoft axes Clip Art image library for Bing Image Search - Software - News - HEXUS.net [ATTACH=CONFIG]27799[/ATTACH] Nooooooooo!!! I used so many little snip-it-images from there in presentations. Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
plexer Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 So we'll see more letters from getty being sent out then. Ben 2
rich_tech Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Thats a shame, their Generic images were used quite a lot I found, they are good with Signage creation in-house.
sonofsanta Posted December 2, 2014 Author Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) So we'll see more letters from getty being sent out then. Ben FTA: Bing Image Search, as built into Office, uses a copyright Creative Commons filter that's switched on by default to allow for commercial use. But that's irrelevant as everyone uses Google Image Search with no consideration for the 350-year old concept of "copyright" Edited December 2, 2014 by sonofsanta
LosOjos Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 So we'll see more letters from getty being sent out then. Ben That was my first thought too - surely, unless Microsoft are using a specialized version of Bing that only search CC/public domain images for this, Getty and others will have a damn good case for rather a large settlement from Microsoft for encouraging/aiding piracy... EDIT: @sonofsanta did the smart thing and looked at the facts 1
Grey-gear Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 WHAT, NO! Spent may a day paying with those images. sad day
X-13 Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Users will begin to be directed to a new image source; Bing Image Search. This totally won't backfire into a massive child protection headache... 1
BassTech Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) I say bring back clippy: not really Edited December 2, 2014 by BassTech
Popular Post fairm010 Posted December 2, 2014 Popular Post Posted December 2, 2014 I see you are looking into bringing me back, would you like some help with that? 7
X-13 Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 I say bring back clippy: [ATTACH=CONFIG]27804[/ATTACH] not really It looks like you're trying to make a joke. Would you like some help with that?
fairm010 Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 It seems like you didn't like my half a***ed joke. Would you like some help with that? [ATTACH=CONFIG]27806[/ATTACH]
X-13 Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 It seems like you didn't like my half a***ed joke. Would you like some help with that? [ATTACH=CONFIG]27806[/ATTACH] It looks like you're mad. Y U mad tho?
Garacesh Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 It was all about the two-legged robot. Sod you all and your Clippy and your Wizards and your Puppy Dogs and your..
BassTech Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 It was all about the two-legged robot. Sod you all and your Clippy and your Wizards and your Puppy Dogs and your.. Seriously though, what the hell was that robot supposed to be??
Grey-gear Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Maybe the paper clip is coming back, Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind. BBC News - Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind 1
Garacesh Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Seriously though, what the hell was that robot supposed to be?? [ATTACH=CONFIG]27810[/ATTACH] I didn't know and I didn't care. 10-year-old me liked it 1
witch Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 I use clipart every month for our newsletter *sigh
LiamH Posted December 2, 2014 Posted December 2, 2014 Seriously though, what the hell was that robot supposed to be?? [ATTACH=CONFIG]27810[/ATTACH] You WILL comply with spellcheck or ill set my daddy on you! 1
sonofsanta Posted March 26, 2015 Author Posted March 26, 2015 Just had a concerned email from one of our office staff as to the content of a ClipArt search... It would seem that Bing Image Search is not a flawless replacement for the original curated selection of images
X-13 Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 It would seem that Bing Image Search is not a flawless replacement for the original curated selection of images I totally didn't see this coming. /s 1
Hawkeyez Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 Just had a concerned email from one of our office staff as to the content of a ClipArt search... [ATTACH=CONFIG]29876[/ATTACH] It would seem that Bing Image Search is not a flawless replacement for the original curated selection of images Hehe just tried this :-)
fairm010 Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 Works on 2010 too. Well here's hoping that the kids dont get wind of this!
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