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If I had my way, Agile would renamed Fragile! 
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It's because companies above a certain size require software that (claims to be) extensible, flexible, and expandable, and which is supported by a company that has a huge reserves, so will not collapse and leave them in the lurch -- these days, any supplier company less than fifteen years old need not apply.
Unfortunately, that leaves only a few players, which have taken so much control of the demographic that they pay little heed to users' needs or complaints -- not to mention that their claims of extensibility, flexibility, and expandability are three parts fiction, and hideously expensive, as they mostly require "consultants" from the suppliers be embedded in the customers' companies for months at extremely high rates.
So we're stuck with arrogant, overly powerful suppliers, who make everything work to their advantage, not their customers'.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No barbarians here! (12)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Civilization
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Correct - you are up tomorrow! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh goodie! That's so much more important than fixing problems...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I concur. Fixing the icons was important because the icons they had changed to were crap, flat an indistinguishable from one another on anything less than a 2k+ monitor. However, fixing them was only important because they already wasted a load of resources creating replacements for the perfect good ones they had before. So they shouldn't have changed them, then they wouldn't have had to waste even more time and resources (not just theirs but everyone's) fixing them.
Just revert to the old ones (not the last lot but the ones that came with Windows 7) and get on with fixing stuff that is actually broken and we'll call it quits.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Google updated their icons recently too in a lot of their products. Why don't people complain about that? It's not as if Microsoft ONLY changed their icons and didn't fix any bugs. Microsoft hate gets boring.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Oh, yes. Microsoft hate.  That's what it is. sure. I do hate the company that's kept me in cat food for 27 years (and counting). I just keep forgetting to call it Micro$oft.
The biggest part of the problem is that the sites monitoring Microsoft (i.e. most of my news) - as well as Microsoft themselves - feel the need to create an article every time a single product changes it's icon. There were a few articles when Google did their Material Design switch, but very few.
I also don't understand why people think they should be immune to ribbing when they breathlessly write: "Quote: Fluent Design is a collective, open design system that ensures people, teams, and their products have the fundamental components and processes to build coherent experiences across platforms.
Sorry, grumpy today, and you poked a nerve (as I guess I did for you). 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: kept me in cat food
Hmm. I see the problem. You may want to change your diet.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I do hate the company that's kept me in cat food for 27 years (and counting).
It's a good thing you put in the 27 years part and thus prevented much angst.
I had you pictured sitting in a huge bowl of cat food, awaiting summary ingestion to ultimately become as-one with a hairball. But - clearly, you are not in any danger as no cat would eat 27 year old food (a dog might - stay alert).
Anyway, is this what MicroSloth has done to you in retaliation for speaking truth-to-power?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Google updated their icons recently too in a lot of their products. Why don't people complain about that? It's not as if Microsoft ONLY changed their icons and didn't fix any bugs. Microsoft hate gets boring.
Did Google change them, then decide their chanhges sucked balls and change/revert them?
Is that Microsoft cum dribbling down your chin?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'm so glad they're prioritising and allocating people's time for the important stuff.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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"I guess I'm just not Fluent in Microsoft's strategy"
I don't think they are either.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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microsoft and "strategy" ???
for a minute there thought my display was broken
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The ms strategy is that everyone fights for positions of power within the company, and the ones with the biggest mouths (and biggest self-inflating lies) win.
I've seen the same thing in a lot of the companies I've contracted to (never ms). It signs the death knell of any kind of quality or innovation, but the companies just keep rolling on, selling to suckers* by greasing their wheels with runny bullsh1t.
* "Suckers" being both customers of the company and shareholders/top management.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The ms strategy is that everyone fights for positions of power within the company, and the ones with the biggest mouths (and biggest self-inflating lies) win.
Flimsy Clunky Automobiles, formerly known as Fix It Again Tony.
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it would be confusing if they keep changing icons every year i guess...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The thing that stands out most in your screenshot is just how f***ing ugly the New! Improved! ms office icons are. Whoever came up with that washed-out look needs firing1.
With file explorer icons, does this mean that the icons used in the tree pane of the explorer will go back to being horizontal folders, rather than vertical -- so that you can see where the f*** you are in the tree, like you could back in the days before ms was taken over by office-politics seat snatchers?
1 Not by his manager; by a squad.
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I guess they're trying to lure in users that have no idea how technology works, but get their product because it "looks slick".
I'm thinking Apple users specifically 
These kind of updates aren't for techies, that's for sure.
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That's the direction I feel with most products. Underlying technology and the way it works remains the same while they create a nice little fancy wrapper on it to make it look new. Now they have become even more lazy. Just change the icon and users will be happy.
This trend is no different than people drooling over latest model of mobile phone which is somehow completely different in a good way from the previous model released 6 months ago. Oh, don't forget to get misty eyed looking at that notch.
We all need to stop downloading these "new" versions (wherever it is not downloaded automatically) and buying these new models.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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As much as I think icon updates are non-events, in this case I welcome any change away from the endless "world of white" that currently exists on Windows (dark mode isn't the solution). Small improvement, but maybe a step back in the right direction.
This isn't the first time I mention that if MS "UX designers" had their way, Windows 10 wouldn't look any worse on CGA video cards, despite everybody now having the hardware that can produce, for all intents and purposes, more colors than the human eye can distinguish. I'm just hoping they keep bringing back a bit of color and this isn't the end of it...
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