It’s always been a bit jarring how much of Windows 10 looks modern, and then occasionally you’re thrown a dated-looking dialogue box because Microsoft hasn’t bothered to update the design. Visual consistency - The refreshed icons should nonetheless go a ways towards hiding the legacy parts of Windows. Microsoft would probably like developers to stop using it when another icon would be more appropriate, though.

Everyone knows the floppy drive means ‘save’.

But the icon has sort of transcended the physical item it used to represent, so it’s probably not going anywhere. Nobody has used a floppy drive in years, and yet it still represents the action of saving a file. Icons are visual shorthand for different actions. But it seems like the company is only putting a new coat of paint on, not fundamentally changing them for the modern era. It’s about time that Microsoft updated the system icons that have been present in Windows since the ‘90s.

New icons are seen to the left, old on the right.

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