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Microsoft is rolling out an icon redesign for Windows 10

And a tonne of other changes!

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Windows operating system, as we know it, is more than two decades old. A lot has changed, but a lot still hasn’t. In what can be called a revamp of the UI, Microsoft is finally changing the icons on an app called File Explorer, after a very long sabbatical.

The first and most prominent change is the addition of new icons in File Explorer. Microsoft has slowly made changes to the icons in Windows 10 over the last year, recently changing the icon for Notepad.

“Several changes, such as the orientation of the folder icons and the default file type icons, have been made for greater consistency across Microsoft products that show files,” says Amanda Langowski, Microsoft’s Windows Insider chief. “Notably, the top-level user folders such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and Pictures have a new design that should make it a little easier to tell them apart at a glance.”

Although this might not be a major change when it comes to the entire operating system, it is one of the ways how Microsoft is showing the modern look. Microsoft’s changelog for Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21343 is long and exhaustive and includes several changes and improvements.

And most importantly, this tiny change shows us how software delivery has changed since its inception. From burning the OS on a CD to directly downloading unlimited OTA updates, Windows 10 is truly the last desktop operating system from Microsoft.

The operating system continues to receive endless updates that sometimes bring major changes, like moving the Internet Explorer browser to Edge, to smaller changes that are most-often go unnoticed.

Here’s a list of all the changes or improvements included in the Windows 10 build 21343:

  • We’re changing the name of the Windows Administrative Tools folder from Start to Windows Tools. We are working to better organize all the admin and system tools in Windows 10.
  • [News and interests] Update on the rollout: following our last update on languages and markets, this week we’re also introducing the experience to China! We continue to roll out news and interests to Windows Insiders, so it isn’t available to everyone in the Dev Channel just yet.
  • We are now rolling out the new IME candidate window design to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel using Simplified Chinese IMEs.
  • We’re updating the “Get Help” link in the touch keyboard to now say “Learn more”.
  • We’re updating File Explorer when renaming files to now support using CTRL + Left / Right arrow to move your cursor between words in the file name, as well as CTRL + Delete and CTRL + Backspace to delete words at a time, like other places in Windows.
  • We’ve made some updates to the network-related surfaces in Windows so that the displayed symbols use the updated system icons we recently added in the Dev Channel.
  • Based on feedback, if the Shared Experiences page identifies an issue with your account connection, it will now send the notifications directly into the Action Center rather than repeated notification toasts that need to be dismissed.
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