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Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10

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. HiDPI by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess operating systems acquiring HiDPI support is one of the reasons going for the flat look. Vector graphics are easy to scale. But maybe some genius will eventually come up with a system that both scales well and looks cool. Some might also say that good appearance isn't the be-all and end-all, but we had quite nice thing going on with Aero, so why go backwards in evolution. The window zoom animations look really good in Windows 10 though.

  2. So Windows is getting hit with the Ugly Stick by wiredog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The same one the Mac OS got hit with in the most recent release.

  3. Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's right, Explorer doesn't always clear its dir cache correctly. Happens more often to me on network drives than local drives, but when it happens, I can open other Explorer instances, navigate to that dir, and they all think the file is still there too. Prevents me from recursively deleting directories sometimes.