Microsoft is changing even more Windows 10 icons as part of its latest versions Insider Preview Build 21343. The company has already redesigned its icons embedded applications and a few others, such as Windows Security, Narrator and Notepad. And back in 2018, Microsoft has given its Office icons a complete overhaul. Even more changes have come in 2020. (To be honest, I’m not used to Office icon changes yet, though I’ve come to accept it.)
This last round of changes, which should eventually be released on every Windows 10 computer, are just as dramatic as the Office icon changes. But is it just me or do Windows 10 icons start to look more and more like macOS icons as time goes on?
Let’s start with the Drive and Recycle Bin icons. Instead of a three-quarter view, both are now facing forward and pointing similar to the same icons on macOS. Test A:
Note how the green dot on the drive icon has now changed places, from right to left. Drive icon on MacOS Big Sur and Catalina (the icon that appears when you insert a flash drive into the USB port) are also frontfacing, but the green dot is on the right, which is where the dot is on the current Windows 10 icon. The new Windows icon has a smaller tilt, but still looks more like a Mac.
The new Windows rcycle bIt is also more Mac-like than before. It is also facing forward and slightly higher. MacOperating system trash the icon is circular, not rectangular, but it is also partially transparent, with almost overflowing papers at the top. The paper is A slightly more colorful than the Windows version, but still.
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As if those MacOS icons weren’t bad enough, Microsoft is completely redesigning the icons for the Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Images, Music, and Videos folders. Copy B:
Microsoft says it is remaking these icons to make them “It’s easier to tell them at a glance.” I would argue that the current icons are already easily distinguishable, given that each icon already contains a note of music, an arrow, etc., but those pieces of icons hang around an open folder in Manila, rather than being embedded in the center. , such as new icons in the image above. Do you know what other icons like that have? macOS.
They are not as colorful, because Apple has chosen to make all its folders a single shade of blue. But they all have different icons in the center to distinguish them from each other. The new Pictures and Windows 10 Desktop icons, in particular, are also different shades of blue, such as macOS, but the rest of the new icons are more colorful – just like the colored bar of macOS icons on the desktop.
Especially for Big Sur, Apple wanted its icons to be looks more consistent with iOS. Microsoft is trying to do the same with these new Windows 10 icons.
“Several changes have been made, such as the orientation of folder icons and default file types, for greater consistency between Microsoft products that present files,” Microsoft said in its recent Windows Insider blog.
Everything is fine, but it seems to be related to a greater tendency to simplify the icons as much as possible. If you compare the icon it changes from macOS Catalina to Big Sur, e.g, you will see visible changes to the Calculator, Calendar and Mail icons in particular. (Not everyone was a fan of them, either.)
When we look back to when Microsoft has started changing several of the Windows 10 icons in 2020, he even said then that he wants to keep a consistent look on Android, iOS and macOS. Having icons that look more like a Mac certainly helps with this mission, although it seems to serve to accomplish Windows 10 itself it looks more like a Mac, instead of standing out. I may hate change, but these new icons are a no from me.