Windows 10 Icons - You cannot be serious, Microsoft!
Saturday, January 24, 2015 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Personal Computing
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-9926-here-are-the-new-icons
I'm flabbergasted!
All I can say is thank god for Iconpackager!
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Reply #22 Monday, January 26, 2015 7:01 AM
what was that all about?
Just chill and go about your day 
-I am sorry if I upset you.
Reply #23 Monday, January 26, 2015 7:11 AM
One of my 'earliest' forays into skinning was making icons for Gorin Desktop...a GUI for Dos.
It had a very limited [and odd] colour palette of 16 [no, not bit - hues].
It took a lot of effort to make something with a max of 16 colours and a grand total of 64 pixels even look halfway like anything at all ....but I bet mine were better than Win 10's ....
Reply #24 Monday, January 26, 2015 7:55 AM
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/+%28windows8++Style%29+0.1+Sigma+metro?content=167327
There are even free themes for linux that look like MS but are indeed much better.The ugly gnome default theme is ten ways nice,r
And i do have to say that i did view everyone of the win 98 icons and they are much nicer than these.
We are back before win 3.11 with icon design !! That can be. Hope resource hacker will work on windows 10. That is a design catastrophe.
Hiope you design creative alternaitves. Thats schouldn`t be a problem.
The XP and vista icons design is good , the win 95 design functional at least but this is, argh better not say it.
regards bluedxca93
Reply #25 Monday, January 26, 2015 8:16 AM
I could live with it if they were all flat (still beats the monochrome glyphs that they had in VS), but they aren't even consistent. Some are isometric (the computer) and some are mixed (network folder). Some aren't flat or isometric (the disc drive). Consistent look and feel is one of the key parts of UX.
Reply #26 Monday, January 26, 2015 8:24 AM
Can someone shed some light to the clueless about why windows 10 is "free" to users of 7, and 8? Especially for 7? I must have missed a memo somewhere.
Yea, those icons are certified as FLAT. I guess style is out the proverbial window. I could understand if they are doing this for performance reasons, but most modern hardware could easily handle the VISTA icons. So what is it with this "euro look"?
I have some questions about that very same thing, Major Stress: https://forums.wincustomize.com/460768/page/1/#3518386
Reply #29 Monday, January 26, 2015 9:56 AM
(Left) From my set in progress (right) Windows 10
Hmmm....
I like the right one better, it is clean and easy to spot and seems more recognizable. The blue screen and the dark blue bottom line on it indicates that this is a icon that represents the desktop.
I actually do not understand the fuzz about the icons since we hopefully will see a return of iconpackager as was mentioned earlier in this thread.
They try to find a compelling icon set that fits the UI like kyro said the bad thing is that they mix them, if they wanted to replace them they would need to replace them all but then again it is a early preview, time to give them feedback if you do not like it. I don’t mind getting a new look. However everyone has the chance to give feedback as insider.
The best would be for MS to contact some Chinese icon-developers to get the job done.
I have seen some pretty amazing clean flat icon sets roaming the web.
This looks like they try to settle a design that goes into the Portal2 look.
Reply #30 Monday, January 26, 2015 9:59 AM
but I bet mine were better than Win 10's
You coulda made icons out of papyrus with charcoal colouring and they'd have been better... or made them out of plasticine/PlayDoh and stuck them on the screen.
Nobody in their right mind would have created icons like this.... not even Apple.. and that's saying something.
Hopefully MS is trawling the net for public reaction/opinion on this and reads what we all have to say... with a bit o' luck they'll change them prior to release for Neone's upcoming set. They're looking real good thus far, Andy, keep up the great work.
Reply #32 Monday, January 26, 2015 12:41 PM
I think the new MS icons look very "Google". They are not 100 % Material design, but not far off. I don't like Android, now Windows is becoming Android for the desktop.
I think Win Aero and Vista/7 icons have stood the test of time. Why go back to 16 colors when our display technology is better than it was 20 years ago?
Reply #34 Monday, January 26, 2015 3:15 PM
Consistent look and feel is one of the key parts of UX.
I couldn't agree more!
Reply #37 Monday, January 26, 2015 4:07 PM
I actually remember a couple of the dos 2.11 GUI interfaces(back in the mid 1980's) ie digital research's GEM and the tandy deskmate BOTH running on the hercules/CGA graphics (mono(4 shades gray) colour (4 colours)) and in my opinion the OLD icons from gem AND deskmate are better than the current pile of shit from MS inspite of the modern graphics hardware of 32bit colour vs 2 bit colour
Harpo the NON-subscriber
Reply #38 Monday, January 26, 2015 9:24 PM
I could live with it if they were all flat (still beats the monochrome glyphs that they had in VS), but they aren't even consistent. Some are isometric (the computer) and some are mixed (network folder). Some aren't flat or isometric (the disc drive). Consistent look and feel is one of the key parts of UX.
Spot on kryo..............I just cannot understand how a company like Microsoft can put all this effort and expense into a new operating system and neglect one aspect of the graphical interface. It gives the impression of being 'half-baked'. I hope they come to their senses before they release Windows 10 to the public. But, hey, we've got IconPackager and I really don't care when I can reshack my icons to produce my own professional looking desktop. Brad and Stardock must be laughing their boots off..............or has Brad got a secret agreement with MS for MS to keep on churning out crap looking icons so he can sell IconPackager with a 10% kick-back fee to MS.............or has someone kidnapped Mormegil?..........Not heard from him for sometime???? Conspiracy theories!!! Only Joking!!! 
Reply #39 Monday, January 26, 2015 9:27 PM
Just saw this.............Are they listening?
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Reply #21 Monday, January 26, 2015 6:46 AM
fisher price os? that was xp
I'd Love to see some of your work
what was that all about? i said xp was the fisher price os many, many years ago when i first discovered wb and stardockand was using mikeb314's tan & blue skin. neil wasn't even the main developer of wb back then. and what does wanting to see my work supposed to mean?