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Mac OS - Snow Leopard vs Windows Seven Icons
The new Windows seven icons were introduced with Vista and many carry over to Windows 7. On the other hand Mac OS 10 has some icons that are extremely clear like the internal drive while on Vista and Windows 7 seems more like an external drive.When it comes to beauty and form, both the Mac OS and Windows 7 icons are running neck in neck. If you check them side by side, there are some differences of note, but the styles of the icons are both pretty and obviously convey a message of what they signal. Some of the key differences between the 2 start if you glance at the folder icons. While they both use folder shapes, Windows 7 sticks with the more traditional yellow color which is closer to their real-world counterparts. Mac OS elects to employ a spotted blue color which more resembles a recycled paper than conventional file folder. This change happened in Leopard and was met up with some criticism.
Folder types are also different from Windows 7 icons to Mac OS X with the latter embossing an image on the icon and the previous choosing an emblem sticking out of the folder. This sticking out blob of the side of the folder makes it more troublesome to see what the folder means like it probably did in the days before Leopard which was essentially easier to tell one from the other.
The new Windows seven icons were introduced with Vista and many carry over to Windows 7. On the other hand Mac OS 10 has some icons that are extremely clear like the internal drive whereas on Vista and Windows 7 looks more like an external drive. Windows doesn't dump its older icons either. If you look in the icons, you can still see things like the 3.5 and 5.25 floppy disk. Some differences with the trash bin is that on the Mac it looks expanded when full.
Windows seven has continued the glass-like style which it debuted in Windows Vista, there also are a couple of icons with a more recent style that steps away from the glassy look. One of them is Wordpad which in Windows 7 follows a totally different style. Also in Mac OS X, the TextEdit icon has text which ran in the'Think Different' TV advertisement which Apple did in the late 90s. There also are plenty more icons that have this playful touch than in Windows which has been known to present business like, practical icons which have carried over into Windows 7. Mac OS icons are known to have a more creative bent.
This, of course, is directly tied to the branding of each O. S : Windows is business-oriented and Mac OS is more artistically driven and private. While this isn't engraved in granite, it is something that has been long known in the bizz. The utilitarian approach to icons is more obvious in both systems System Preferences and Control Panel sections. The icons on both systems obviously convey their meaning without any room for confusion. These 2 sets of icons while engaging serve that purpose. Hopefully, the way icons are rendered in Windows seven will change with the next upgrade. They're currently in .ico format which is not the simplest to handle inside .exe and .dll files.
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