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> new Office files

I know what you mean, I’m not being pedantic, but I just realized it’s been 19 years. I wonder when we’ll start calling them “Office files”.

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> I wonder when we’ll start calling them “Office files”.

Probably around the same time the save icon becomes something other than a 3 1/2" floppy disk.

Nowadays I’ve noticed fewer applications have a save icon at all, relying instead on auto-save.

And some only save to the cloud, whence a cloud icon with an arrow. (Not that I like that, but... that's what we get)

English is evolving as a hieroglyphic language. That floppy disk icon stands a good chance of becoming simply the glyph meaning "save". The UK still uses an icon of an 1840s-era bellows camera for its speed camera road signs. The origin story will be filed away neatly and only its residual meaning will be salient.

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