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Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-sir-I-don't-like-it dept.

jones_supa writes A lot of people got upset about the flat looks of Modern UI presented in Windows 8. Recent builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview have now started replacing the shell icons, and to some people they are just too much to bear. Basically, Microsoft opted to change the icons in search of a fresh and modern look, but there are plenty of people out there who claim that all these new icons are actually very ugly and the company would better stick to the previous design. To find out what people think about these icons, Softpedia asked its readers to tell their opinion and the messages received in the last couple of days pretty much speak for themselves. There are only few testers who think that these icons look good, but the majority wants Microsoft to change them before the final version of the operating system comes out.

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  1. Re:Flat Look may be ugly, but it is useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can always turn off the effects for VMs and remote connections. For local use, effects like transparency and whatnot do not introduce any kind of penalty. Even the slowest GPUs (all the way to GMA950) have been able to do it without any perceivable slowdown. Windows is very well optimized in this regard.

  2. Bugs in Win 7 UI by CaptainOfSpray · · Score: 5, Informative

    "after releasing Windows 7"

    So the bugs in Win 7 UI were actually created by Microsoft people?

    1. In Win 7, open Windows Explorer
    2. Get a list of files up.
    3. Delete a file
    4. Whoa, the file is STILL THERE in the list
    5. Delete it again
    6. Whoa, ERROR MESSAGE "file not found" - if so, why is it listed?

    That's a fundamental breach of the user paradigm. No previous Windows has ever done anything so mindlessly wrong.

    This shit is why I decided to stay with XP till the end, and then moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon. Which was an excellent move - it runs lighter and faster on my hardware than XP ever did, and looks and feels a lot more like the UI that I already knew than Win 7, Win 8, Win 8.1 does.

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  3. Re:Do it like Linux by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll throw some screenshots here so people can compare easily.

    - Windows 3.1
    - Windows 95
    - Windows 7
    - Windows 10 new icons from the article
    - Windows 10 new Recycle Bin and Control Panel icons