File Explorer icon gets more colorful in latest Windows 10 build

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Published onMay 28, 2016

published onMay 28, 2016

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Build 14352is finally hereand brought manyimprovements and updatesrequested by Windows 10 users. Cortana now acts as your personal DJ, and you can set a timer for important events. Windows Ink now has a compass available, whilethe Feedback Hubshows Microsoft’s responses, offering more visibility to users.

As far as the Windows 10 design in concerned, the File Explorer icon is now more colorful following users’s request:

Updated File Explorer icon:Based on Insider feedback, we have updated the File Explorer icon with more color.

The File Explorer icon’s colors are now more balanced, and yellow dominates the view. The right upper corner design and colors were kept, while the violet half square from the middle has been replaced with a blue ciel one on a yellow background.

The File Explorer icon from previous buildscreated a lot of fussamong users. Most of them did not like the design and classified it as being ugly and awful. Gabe Aul assured users that the build team explored various ways to adjust the yellow icon to the general black and white Windows app and that was the best possible match. He never really succeeded in convincing users to accept that color design, and we can see the result in the latest build.

Aul still won a battle since Insiders did not ask Microsoft to restore the File Explorer icon back to thetaskbarby default. If you’d also like to bring back the File Explorer icon to the taskbar, you can easily pin it back.

It is interesting to see that Microsoft reads each and every note of feedback sent by Windows 10 users. Nevertheless, we can’t help but raise an eyebrow seeing how long this File Explorer icon design saga has been trailing. Maybe Microsoft should direct resources towards solvingmore urgent issuesand bury the File Explorer icon debate once and for all.

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