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The control panel and Paint icons sport the same new visual style (and there are a few others scattered throughout the operating system), and if my memory serves me right, this new style did not arrive until the RC build.

The bottom left icon, labelled вЂnew styleвЂ™, is the WordPad icon in windows 7, an as you can see, it follows a different style. The top left icon is Notepad in Windows 7, and itвЂ™s clearly in вЂglassвЂ™ style, with the transparent front cover.

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First, while Windows 7 clearly continues the вЂglassвЂ™ style introduced with Windows Vista, it also comes with several icons in a new style, which makes quite a few steps away from the glass idea.

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I chose to compare the editor icons in Windows and Mac OS X to illustrate two specific points. The Mac icon is also a bit odd as the вЂwebbingвЂ™ on the backside does not continue below the front rim (you barely notice at normal size). If IвЂ™m not mistaken (please correct me if I am), the trash icons on the Lisa and the original Macintosh did the same thing. When full, the bin in the Mac icon also bulges a little bit (see the red arrow) which further illustrates the fact that the bin is, indeed, full.

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When looking at the icons used for empty and full recycle bins, the difference in visual style becomes quite clear: Windows is clearly all about the whole glass thing, while Mac OS X opts for a more natural-looking trash bin. For those who are interested: yes, Windows still contains drive icons for not only 3.5вЂі floppy drives, but also 5.25вЂі floppy drives. The Mac OS X icon is clearly an internal drive, while the Windows one looks more like an external one to me. Mac OS X has been using more or less the same type of drive icon for a while now, while Microsoft introduced new icons in Vista which carry on in Windows 7. In the pre-Leopard days, the labels were coloured making them much easier to distinguish. I personally dislike the Mac method quite deeply, as it can be quite difficult to tell one embossed blob on a folder apart from another. Windows and Mac OS X also use different methods for indicating folder type the later embosses an image on the icon, while the former opts for an emblem sticking out of the folder. Mac OS X opts for a speckled blue, reminiscent of recycled paper a change in Leopard which not exactly met with universal praise.

The current folder icon for Windows clearly evolved from the folders used in Windows 95. While both of them clearly sport the traditional folder shape, the Windows 7 icon uses the traditional yellow colour, a colour which is reminiscent of actual, real-world folders. If you compare the two operating systemвЂ™s folder icons, you can already see a few key differences. Note that this article contains some large images, so if youвЂ™re on dial-up, youвЂ™ve been warned. In this article, I compare some of Snow LeopardвЂ™s icons to those of Windows 7, and youвЂ™ll see while both operating systems have beautiful icons, there are some key differences between the styles of these icons. Last week, Culf of Mac published an article showing off some of Snow LeopardвЂ™s beautiful 512Г—512 icons, revealing some interesting tidbits about them you could only see when the icons are fully maximised.

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