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Windows 10 “Sun Valley” will do away with Windows 95 era icons

arstechnica.com

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It sucks being a designer and being told your X design looks like Y. A field that seems to never garner any respect. Too many Homers.

I don't see the retro complaint they're making. They switched to a common indicator for drive (black box with green light) and an indicator for the type of drive. (7 1/2 floppy, 3 1/4 floppy, network, optical)

They look great to me.

When I first saw the headline, I feared that they'd be switching them out for some kind of horrible flat icon monstrosities. But these are actually pretty cool and definitely triggered some nostalgia for the computer I learned to program on (an Apple ][+ clone).

At this point, floppy disk drives are an anachronism anyway so it doesn't really matter which era you depict them from. If you're going to show them at all you might as well go all the way back.

Retro because the last time I saw a black floppy drive would have been in the 1980s. And the only black optical drive I've ever seen was on a Next cube - not exactly common.

I think those black floppy drives were still quite common in the first half of the nineties

Well, I think not. Everything back then was either beige, or violent blue for things like zip drives.

Can anyone explain why Microsoft is always so incredibly slow at keeping Windows modern compared to Apple with MacOS? The difference in quality has always baffled me.

What's with the 5 1/4" drive icon?

Well apparently, you can get those ancient things to work under Windows 10 still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=footqrNHfp4

Hearing the head move brought back sweet memories. It sounds so much nicer than 3.5" heads.

In the new icons, is it just me or the drive on the top right looks exactly the same as the drive on the bottom left? They are different in the old icon set.

The new folder icon looks much better than the old one in my opinion.

I don't like the new icons, but happily I can edit the DLL to make my own or restore the old ones.

Now if only it were easier to persist my changes without Windows always trying to restore the original.

Feel some of the new ones you have to know what they are - the printer or the CD disc icon(3rd bottom row) both seem to hide the icon they're representing

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