Windows is the trash
gotta say XP and 7 ones are the coolest.
I assume that last one is some sort of AI app.
Yes, copilot
Seriously though, the thought of an llm running on a server interacting with my files is one of the most frightening things I can imagine happening to anyone
I don’t want to sound like I support ANYTHING about Windows 11, because I don’t.
That being said, take your clothes off, I’ll tie you to this torture rack I keep in my basement, and I’ll get you to reevaluate what fear really means.
Hey, are you ticklish?
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My brother in christ, perfometh a websearch to look for the meaning of the word “hyperbole”.
Who hurt you
At least the polar bear won’t lie to me about my search results.
I was like “oh wow they really changed it”
Acktshually, that’s the Recycle Bin.
This meme has been recycled more times than I can count.
You know I don’t think I ever realized the trash icon has a recycle logo on it. Weird
I think Microsoft put the recycle logo on theirs because Apple used the “Trash bin” moniker and Microsoft wanted to appear more green or whatever.
Apple sued Microsoft over the “look and feel” of the desktop interface, claiming that Windows was too similar to Mac OS. The suit was mostly dismissed, except in the case of the trash bin. The judge ruled that the Microsoft version came too close to Apple’s. From that point on Microsoft used the Recycle Bin.
…And Windows’ recycling bin icons were shit ever since, except for Vista, where the icon actually resembled those used in OSX.
The suit was filed in 1988, when 2.0 was the latest release of Windows. I couldn’t find what the trash bin icon looked like in it, but Macintosh back then had wonderful icons designed by Susan Kare:
Windows 3.1 seems to have had a pretty neat icon, if this page is correct, but it might’ve already been updated after the initial decision in the case, or just as an overall refresh.
Ah, fascinating. Poor Xerox though.
Xerox also bought 100,000 shares of Apple in 79’ for $10 a share to help with the research. That would be worth 6.2 billion dollars in stock now. But they sold it in 89’.
Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.
The is the universal symbol for throwing something away, but I think the recycle symbol is far more recognized even though they mean two different things.
It is rather odd that for X years you could (presumably) see the icon very regularly and never see the sole feature on that icon.
It’s like saying you didn’t realise a stop sign had a word in the middle of it.
Imagine being able to see something universally recognized and not thinking too hard on the connection between a name and the symbology associated with it. Fucking wild concept.
And your analogy is a poor one considering the sign Stop says the word Stop. If the Stop sign said Go then sure, but trash /=/ recycle
It’s known as the recycle bin where I’m from as opposed to Apple’s trash because that’s its official name as the symbol denotes. It’s still wild that someone wouldn’t notice it at all, ever. It’s as plain as the nose on your face, or the word stop on a stop sign, which is just 4 symbols bang in the middle.
That’s the recycle bin. Mac OS has trash.
The former icon designer in me twitches when I see Linux distros that have Recycle Bin icon labeled as “Trash.”
2026 should look like a garbage can with the windows logo in it
The 2025 trash icon no longer looks like a trash can. It’s no longer intuitive. At the same time, I don’t actually keep one on my desktop, so meh.
Isn’t it the copilot icon or have I been taken to an alternative universe?
If it is, then I failed to get the joke.
And yet you still managed to accidentally make a pretty funny joke. Win/win.
Yeah, there should be a whoosh somewhere above you.
*correction:
It peaked in 2006
2006 is actually close to MacOS’ trash icons, which indeed always looked way better.
I think for the Mac icons here I like the 2001 variant.
Yeah, that was what I’m most familiar with, and it felt neat as heck. 2014 is probably part of overall change away from Jobs’ skeuomorphism to glass texture that Jony Ive likes.
just like Windows itself ( correction : Windows peaked 2009 - 2012 )
'98 is best.
2015 is second best.
Agree on 1998, disagree on second best.
1995 was second best.
Pixel art has my pixel heart.
2001 for me. It was colourful and round, didn’t feel like a boring square box. While XP wasn’t always the most stable, it was a good OS.
2001 is my bae
2006 sick 3D
No hate for Cortana?
*courtisane
1995 and 2015 looking go tho
I’m partial to 1998. That’s my favorite one.
Same, maybe a bit 2000 also. They give this nostalgic feeling. I think it is the high quality pixel art-style that reminds me of simpler times.
never used anything under windows 8.1 in my entire life - 2000 and 2001 are my favourites
