# Windows finally uses .PNG for icons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039>\
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**Created:** [November 9, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039 "2003-11-09T18:48:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mik3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@Mik3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mik3)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039/1 "2003-11-09T18:48:22Z")

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Windows Codename Longhorn will finally use high quality .PNG files for it’s icons. The new format will help Microsoft’s “Revolutionary 3d Enviroment,” which was not shown at PDC but was talked about.

[kinda low quality picture](http://server2.uploadit.org/files/091103-screenstyh.JPG)

[PDC Site](http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/)

I think .PNGs are so much better than Icons.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039/2 "2003-11-09T18:53:33Z")

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Someone over at MS must have been ill the day they decided that.

Supprised they didn’t come up with some new image format .MSI

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039/3 "2003-11-09T19:24:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Laslett \*  
> \*\*Someone over at MS must have been ill the day they decided that.

Supprised they didn’t come up with some new image format .MSI \*\*

FYI: MSI = **M** icro **s** oft **I** nstaller 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039/4 "2003-11-09T20:10:10Z")

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was an example not a suggestion

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/windows-finally-uses-png-for-icons/35039/5 "2003-11-10T02:54:42Z")

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THey could, Longhorn is still in it’s early alpha stage.