Microsoft started distributing the new icons we had talked about at the end of 2019. The goal is to give users a more modern image of the operating system, with a minimalist and colorful style. The roll-out of the new icons has just begun on the Fast Channel for some of the native operating system apps, such as Calculator, Groove Music, Mail, Voice Recorder, Alarms and Clock, Calendar and Movies and TV.
Microsoft has already planned to update other icons (in December it had shown about a hundred of them together with a new logo), including some monochrome icons that will become more colorful as the fashion of the moment demands. Among these we will have a new icon for the Photos app, while some new icons have already peeped out also on the Windows 10 Release Preview channel, so they will arrive in days for all users.
Here's what the new icons of Windows 10 will look like
We refer to the icons of Mail and Calendar, which could be finalized with the next updates of the operating system and released publicly. Microsoft 's new strategy on Windows 10 icons they are part of the modernization work of the Fluent Design used in the operating system, within a broader strategy that has as its ultimate goal to make the company's entire software and services fleet more modern.
The new iconsthey will also appear on Windows 10X, the variant of Microsoft's OS designed for dual-screen devices. Windows 10 on notebooks and desktops will receive a graphic refresh, probably, simultaneously with the release of the operating system for dual-screen devices, and the new icons will be a fundamental part of the restyling. It seems unlikely that standard Windows 10 will also resume the new 10X Start Menu.
Previously, Microsoft had also updated the icons and application design of the Office package, creating greater stylistic consistency between the desktop and mobile versions, and the company brought the Fluent Design on all platforms, always with the aim of creating a coherent commercial proposal on a graphic level. The Edge icon has also recently been updated in the Chromium-based version.
According to Microsoft, the company's internal teams of the various divisions are collaborating with each other in a way that is defined "open source", therefore the sharing and collaboration between the various units have become a pivot in the new strategy of the developer of the operating system par excellence on PC.