Twist: Microsoft revolutionizes the icons of the operating system. An epochal turning point since they are unchanged since the release of Windows 95. Changes that are part of a deeper renewal of the graphical interface of Windows 10, within the project known by the code name Sun Valley. The debut of the new icons is expected when the new version of the operating system will be fully operational, in the fall but already now Microsoft has paused Windows 10X, initially announced for 2021, to focus primarily on desktop innovation, while taking up some features of the shelved platform.
The strategy is to relaunch Windows in a big way, also in light of the dizzying increase (+ 75 percent) in its use, caused by the pandemic.
Taking into account a PC found as a reference point by users, and the need to proceed with a necessary modernization (Windows 10 has not undergone significant changes since its release in 2015) a free update of the operating system would be offered, guaranteeing each consumer the same user experience.
The news in sight would concern the renewed design of the Start menu, which would be detached from the taskbar and from the left side of the screen, the taskbar, and the notification center. As for the icons, in addition to those already appeared in the month of March this year and last year, more colorful, contained in the File Explorer folder, would be introduced variations on the most long-lived, dating back to ’95. Specifically, according to the indications of the site Windows Latest, the changes, concerning for example hibernation, memory and floppy disk, would be traceable in preview in the Shell32.DLL file. The style of the new icons, aligned with more modern graphic standards, seems to decree a turning point by definitively archiving the past.