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Microsoft Redesigns Windows 10 Icons

VulkanBros said:
Let´s have the good old Win 3.0 icons back :roll:


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Oh goodness no. They were good for their time, but it's 2020, let's have something commiserate for todays computing.

btarunr said:
For large organizations where tens of thousands of employees are carrying their work home (and connecting to their work machine or a VD), those few kbps of bandwidth saved add up (the organization's Internet pipe handling those many thousands of RDs/VDs).
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Very true!
 
Lol. I'd want this icon-pack in my phone. In my PC not so much.

But man, nothing ever came close to Windows 7 UI. If they hadn't killed W7 and W10 didn't have so good of a yask manager I'd still be sporting W7. The rounded corners and transparent aero theme was sublime.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Oh goodness no. They were good for their time, but it's 2020, let's have something commiserate for todays computing.
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They were never good, not even in the '90s. It was just a clusterf*ck of pixelart, that tried to be more than it should.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Very true!
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Also, simple graphics under lossy RD compression (such as Citrix's crappy compression) end up looking a lot better than complex true-color icons with too many shapes, colors, or gradients.
 
Dammeron said:
They were never good, not even in the '90s. It was just a clusterf*ck of pixelart, that tried to be more than it should.
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It was good for it's time, back then it was the best the technology it was running on could do. Nowaday's, with the ultra powerful hardware available? There is simly no excuse not to use UI elements that look wonderful, eye-catching and appealing.

Khonjel said:
But man, nothing ever came close to Windows 7 UI.
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I fully agree with this. The Windows 7 UI is easily Microsofts best effort of all the UI's they've come up with.
 
Yes, W7's icons are more corresponding to the reality, more physical.

The best icon is simply a photo of the thing that you want to link to.

 
ARF said:
Yes, W7's icons are more corresponding to the reality, more physical.

The best icon is simply a photo of the thing that you want to link to.

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That's way too busy, it makes my eyes bleed.
 
These look good. Thank satan we finally get rid of all flat everything
 
I like these new icons. I just hope it doesn't take another 10 years to apply them everywhere. The "new" Settings app, for example, will look way out of place with this new iconography. That makes Windows 10 an even bigger mishmash of design languages, which personally, I find very aggravating.
 
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Dammeron said:
They were never good, not even in the '90s. It was just a clusterf*ck of pixelart, that tried to be more than it should.
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Now that you mention it when I had Windows 8.1, I briefly used used the 2000 style or older themepack that came as options in the personalization control panel.
Since I got my first PC in early 2010s I kinda liked feeling like I owned a modern retro machine. I even had the drab one tone blue wallpaper.
Since Personalization moved to Settings App in W10, you can't do that anymore right?
If not I'd like to try it again.

Btw is MS gonna remove control panel in the future? I know they're already stripping it piece by piece by will they outright remove it in a future build?
I really hate the settings app. Most of the time the settings I want are in related settings or additional settings tab, not the main one. mouse settings panel and the sounds panel come to mind.

I really wish they didn't touch control panel.
 
Khonjel said:
Now that you mention it when I had Windows 8.1, I briefly used used the 2000 style or older themepack that came as options in the personalization control panel.
Since I got my first PC in early 2010s I kinda liked feeling like I owned a modern retro machine. I even had the drab one tone blue wallpaper.
Since Personalization moved to Settings App in W10, you can't do that anymore right?
If not I'd like to try it again.

Btw is MS gonna remove control panel in the future? I know they're already stripping it piece by piece by will they outright remove it in a future build?
I really hate the settings app. Most of the time the settings I want are in related settings or additional settings tab, not the main one. mouse settings panel and the sounds panel come to mind.

I really wish they didn't touch control panel.
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I kind of remanufactured my control panel by finding the links to the individual elements of it that I was using often, and putting shortcuts down on my desktop to get to the parts I access often such as sound options, display, device manager, bluetooth, network connections, etc. Its strange to see the old valuable windows control elements buried behind a veneer of slick, worthless toggles. Once you make a few shortcuts and place them somewhere, you can find them easy with start -> type the thing you want, whereas on a new system install its harder to locate at first.
 
Vario said:
I kind of remanufactured my control panel by finding the links to the individual elements of it that I was using often, and putting shortcuts down on my desktop to get to the parts I access often such as sound options, display, device manager, bluetooth, network connections, etc. Its strange to see the old valuable windows control elements buried behind a veneer of slick, worthless toggles. Once you make a few shortcuts and place them somewhere, you can find them easy with start -> type the thing you want, whereas on a new system install its harder to locate at first.
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Hmmm I might do that too. I do have Control Panel as start menu shortcut in my old laptop but in main PC, SSD is do fast that there's almost no downtime between typing to search and it showing up.

I distinctly remember there's a folder with shortcuts of all the important tools. I think it's call administrative tools. Might look for that later.
 
I think they are just running out of ideas for updates. Nothing to see here. lol
 
I just looked closer into those new icons, analyzed them and... yeah, don't like them that much. Old Office icons at least had something more linking them to their respective programs, like a written page for Word, or calc sheet for Excel, instead of just a first letter - that was way easier to read for me. On the new chart eg. I see 3 new icons with "P" and if I didn't know the colour theme of Powerpoint, I wouldn't know which one represents it.

Besides, as someone mentioned earlier, there's too much blue goin' on.
 
I wish they'd finish porting all the legacy UI to the modern UI first. The mishmash of different styles is getting worse, not better. We were promised a unified design language 8 years ago and they've catastrophically failed to complete that task.

Refreshing the icons is like putting lipstick on a pig when there is still a whole bunch of missing functionality that requires you to open legacy console windows or bring up legacy control panel items. That stuff is Windows NT era and pretty icons are so far away from the list of priorities that that Microsoft's efforts with refreshed icons demonstrate laughable awareness of what's actually important.
 
These icons look really bad. Just putting a square with a letter in it seems really generic and rather hard to differentiate.

I just want an OLED friendly them in the hopes more monitors come out.
 
lynx29 said:
I think they are just running out of ideas for updates. Nothing to see here. lol
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No need for bug fixing and perf increases. Just give the dolts new icons and they'll be satisfied.

BTW, I'm STILL waiting on all of the features that were axed from Vista, b/c the morons couldn't create a new kernel for it to run on.
 
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I'd have to see side by side comparison to form an opinion.

I want Windows 7 official style for everything. I'm sick of flat design and washed out colours.
 
ARF said:
I don't like these new icons. Look too childish, like made by or for children in the kindergarten.
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Agreed 100%.
I teach 7 to 15 year olds how to use a computer and know their taste. These new icons scream "millennials".
I like the new designs, but nothing beats windows 7 style icons - those hit the sweet spot looking attractive and serious at the same time. Windows 8 style looks too simplified (too professional) and the new ones look too childish.
 
Because the most important issues with Windows 10 are the icons...

Come on, Microsoft.
 
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