Why Microsoft is getting rid of those iconic illustrations. — -- Clip Art, the iconic collection of images beloved by students and professionals around the world for their whimsy and ease of ...

Those days are long gone. Now, you can just as easily find an image of a light bulb for your "bright ideas" poster on Google (GOOGL) as you can with Microsoft Clip Art. That's why Microsoft (MSFT ...

Most notably, clip art -- vector art -- is infinitely resizable; bitmap images, which account for about 99.99% of the images on the web (all JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs), cannot be gracefully scaled up.