Microsoft might be bringing even more icons in Windows 10

May 29, 2015 05:33 GMT  ·  By

Earlier this week, Windows 10 build 10125 got leaked with a new icon pack, but it turns out that there's more on the icon front prepared by Microsoft for users of its new operating system.

In a public demonstration at Tech World, Lenovo's conference where the Chinese manufacturer presented its latest technologies and products, officials of both Lenovo and Microsoft, including CEO Satya Nadella, demoed Cortana's extension called REACHit using a new Windows 10 build that seems to bring some new goodies on the desktop.

As Neowin reports, there are new black and white icons on the Windows 10 desktop in this public demonstration, and both Microsoft Edge and the Windows Store are using them.

Microsoft appears to be trying really hard to address the criticism aimed at its icons, and this minimal design that uses black and white for the design of the taskbar icons could be a way to deal with it, but it remains to be seen if users actually like this more than the traditional approach.

Unreleased version of Windows 10

Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell which version of Windows 10 Microsoft has actually demoed here because there's no watermark in the lower right corner, so it's clearly an unreleased build and most likely one that the company has developed internally for demo purposes.

What's interesting is that Edge is already part of this version, and the existing builds plus the upcoming ones would continue to come with Spartan, as confirmed by head of the Windows Insider program, Gabriel Aul.

“Will still be Project Spartan in the next flight, but we are working on it. Branding changes have some non-engineering hurdles,” Aul has said today.

Windows 10 should be ready in just a month or two, so maybe this is one of the internal candidates for RTM, although we doubt that Microsoft won't be making any changes or updates to these builds in the coming weeks.

Both the Edge browser and the Windows Store use the new icons
Both the Edge browser and the Windows Store use the new icons

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Both the Edge browser and the Windows Store use the new icons
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