I have always been an icon fanatic. It probably comes from my days as a developer and always looking for different and interesting icons to use in my software. Not to mention always wanting to improve on the dead looking ones that traditionally came with any windows Install. At least with Vista they did try to do something to improve on them.

Now with the move to the Windows Live Services there seems to be an interest in creating some great new icons to go with the new direction that Microsoft is taking. So with much thanks to Long Zheng; who seems to have this uncanny ability to find all the cool stuff we have a sample of some of the new icons that might be shipped with the next wave (release) of Windows Live Services

Much thanks to Long for these.

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