Benoit J. LheureuxI don’t want anyone to take this seriously, but following a recent corporate PC software upgrade which included Microsoft Outlook 2007 and IBM Lotus Notes 8, I was browsing through the new menus and observed that the “Save As” menu button (for Outlook) and the “Save” menu button (for Lotus) both use obsolete floppy diskette Icons:
Microsoft Outlook “Save As” button
IBM Lotus Notes 8 “Save” button
I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I heavily used and distinctly remember floppy diskettes, but I’ll bet there are a lot of people using these applications who have never seen a real one, which begs the question: what do these icons mean to them? 
Just having some fun…
Cheers,
- bjl
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1 Brian Prentice May 10, 2010 at 11:27 pm
More to the point – is an icon necessary at all?
But hey, if you someone’s going to update it they might as well find a icon that won’t become obsolete in the next 1-2 years…say a picture of an arrow pointing to a cloud?
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