I have some questions about that very same thing, Major Stress: https://forums.wincustomize.com/460768/page/1/#3518386

You coulda made icons out of papyrus with charcoal colouring and they'd have been better... or made them out of plasticine/PlayDoh and stuck them on the screen.

Nobody in their right mind would have created icons like this.... not even Apple.. and that's saying something.

Hopefully MS is trawling the net for public reaction/opinion on this and reads what we all have to say... with a bit o' luck they'll change them prior to release for Neone's upcoming set.  They're looking real good thus far, Andy, keep up the great work.

I think the new MS icons look very "Google". They are not 100 % Material design, but not far off. I don't like Android, now Windows is becoming Android for the desktop.

I think Win Aero and Vista/7 icons have stood the test of time. Why go back to 16 colors when our display technology is better than it was 20 years ago?

I couldn't agree more!

I agree those fit together well ^
 

Spot on kryo..............I just cannot understand how a company like Microsoft can put all this effort and expense into a new operating system and neglect one aspect of the graphical interface. It gives the impression of being 'half-baked'. I hope they come to their senses before they release Windows 10 to the public. But, hey, we've got IconPackager and I really don't care when I can reshack my icons to produce my own professional looking desktop. Brad and Stardock must be laughing their boots off..............or has Brad got a secret agreement with MS for MS to keep on churning out crap looking icons so he can sell IconPackager with a 10% kick-back fee to MS.............or has someone kidnapped Mormegil?..........Not heard from him for sometime???? Conspiracy theories!!! Only Joking!!! 

Quoting ElanaAhova,

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I guess the flat - earthers are finally gonna have their day (on win 10). 

Aw, leave the flat-Earthers alone.  They're harmless enough... until they push people off the edge to prove the theory.

Not that I've put much stock in this flat Earth thing, but sometimes I have wondered where people go after they've been pushed.

Anyway, I was finally going to get around to installing the Win 10 preview earlier this evening.  Wanted to see first-hand what all the fuss is about, but not all went according to plan.  Now I DID download the ISO, and I DID put it in a Microsoft folder on a 'programs' partition on an external drive, but when I went to find it, there it was gone.  An Everything search didn't find it, and I even tried the other drives to ensure I'd not put it on another, but alas, no such luck, it just seems to have mysteriously disappeared into chasm of no return.

It means having to download it again, and the internet here is as slow as a wet week, so it's going to take 'til Sunday arvo [Oz time around the Winter Solstice] to get my hands on it... again.  Nah, it's not quite that bad, but it could take 'til sometine Saturday morning [Oz time] before the download completes. Could be worse,  I suppose, could be waiting on the 'real' snail mail for it to arrive.

Being as my plans for the evening got feched up  by this catsasstrophy, I decided insted to pick the lint outta my belly button... didn't have any. Orright, I'd clean the wax out of my ears... didn't have any.  Okay, I'm bound to have some toe jam to remove... nope, didn'y have any.  Next thing was watch a porno and... well I didn't have any. What to do, what to do?

Oh, that's right!  When all else fails, I still have you lot here at WC to pester.

So, the question remains, do I get these butt ugly icons now cos I'm downoading a later build, or can I wait 'til next payday to get some 'sick bags' [like those you find in the back of the seat in front of you on most commercial flights]?

The other question that comes to mind: does anybody know yet if Fisher Price is gonna sue for unauthorised use of IP?  And if not, does anybody know of a kindly lawyer [if there is such a thing] to represent us pro bono in a class action to have these abominable eyesores removed from Win 10 prior to official release?

Another thing before I go, MS has hired a comedian... to write some Win 10 blogs.  Can't recall the exact wording, but it went something like this: "This will be the best ever verion of Windows thanks to you.  You have told us what you want and we have listened...."

Yeah, right!  we/re still getting these fugly icons.

It's a preview version, not anywhere near finished. I'm sure that the final version will be consistent, and hopefully consistently good....

Yes, the icons are dismal, but I'm all over it for free.  I paid $35.00 for XP on my old core 2 quad and upgraded to 8 for $40.00, then got the free 8.1 upgrade.  I'll take the free W10 upgrade with a smile, especially since it'll be replacing the least liked OS in the house.   

I'll be keeping my W7 machines at that level until W10 proves itself though.  No point in fixing what ain't broke. 

Well the Win 10 preview dowload didn't take as long as first estimated - like 30 something hours - it was finished when I woke up this morning... late this morning, that is.  Didn't get to sleep 'til gone 4.00am, so it was gone 10 when I awoke.  Anyway, it's on a thumb drive ready to be installed... which I will..er, CAN do this evening after dinner.

Then I shall see what all the fuss is about... YIPEEEEEE!!!!!