Windows 10, Microsoft shows 100 new icons and new Windows logo

Microsoft is changing several native Windows 10 app icons and also the operating system logo for Windows 10X. We have known for about a year that the Colossus of Redmond has been working on a restructuring regarding the style of the icons of Windows 10, and the new versions for the Office apps were only the beginning of the new course. The company has now announced the redesign of over 100 icons with new colors, materials, and details.

The aim is to modernize Microsoft software and services under the dictates of Fluent Design: ” With the newly redesigned icons, we have faced two important creative challenges: we needed to report innovation and change while maintaining the familiarity of services for consumers. We also had to need to develop a flexible and open design system in order to expand on various contexts, remaining faithful to the Microsoft style, ” wrote Jon Freidman, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Design and Research.

Many of the changes in the icons are not great revolutions, for a stylistic change that has to make all the elements on the screen stylistically coherent with each other. To date, Windows 10 is betrayed by its ” hybrid ” nature, with Win32 apps competing for the place with those designed on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). As a result, the apps use different styles with respect to the icons, and the new design tries to clean up.

Windows 10X may be only part of the answer to the problem, and on the new operating system designed for dual-screen devices, we will also find a new version of the Windows logo. If the current one is always and in any case proposed with a single color, on Windows 10X, it will use a different shade for each square. There will also be several new features in the operating system, such as a new Start Menu without Live Tiles.

The process of changing icons will be gradual for users and will continue throughout 2020 through the various updates that we will see next year.