Microsoft Updates Windows 10 Emoji to Resemble Apple's Collection

[Rogifan]

Those Microsoft emoji look hideous. Glad the only time I have to use Windows is at work and then I'm using Windows 7.

 

[Nozuka]

Glad to see MS Paint still getting some use

best comment of the day

 

[ScottHammet]

First off, they don't look anywhere similar.

Secondly, they're Emoji. They're supposed to be similar so everyone knows what you're trying to say.

Third, I'm pretty sure Apple didn't invent the yellow circular face smiley.

At least they look better than Android's green robots.

Also, I hate that the FaceBook and Twitter websites force themselves to show their own custom versions instead of Apple's.

You're right, Apple didn't invent the "yellow circular face smiley". A man named Harvey Ball did.

 

[DavidTheExpert]

I'm with the other commenters on this. This is a good thing.

You want the emojis to look similar across all platforms. It's not like they copy/pasted them straight from Apple. They took the time to redesign them all with their own somewhat flat style, but based on Apple's fairly standard interpretation of each one.

 

[69Mustang]

Those Microsoft emoji look hideous. Glad the only time I have to use Windows is at work and then I'm using Windows 7.

Their hideousness is subject to personal preference. I could take or leave them both. Besides, they're emoji - who really gives crap. As for the resemblance, yeah, this article is stretching the meaning of resemblance to an unnecessary level. I think all emoji will bear some resemblance but what the article is implying is not true. It's funny. When you think about design language, MS' emoji look more like Apple's flat design and Apple's emoji remind me of something out of Vista/Win7.

 

[NoSoup4U]

Doesn't Microsoft usually take 3 years to mis-copy Apple?

 

[BCWorld]

Okay, first samsung, now micro$0ft. I guess this is "copy all things apple" week. ##

 

[Makosuke]

I actually prefer the Windows 10 versions. Kudos to Microsoft for getting it right.

With you on that. It may just be because I tend to prefer flat/iconic to "3D"/skeuomorphic looks--and there's a legitimate argument to be made that Apple's emoji look more "playful", which is kind of the point, but I prefer the MS ones (among other things, they also look like they'd go better inline with text, which is inherently "flat".

Also credit to MS for being the first to support the one-finger salute.

 

[Reason077]

So, Microsoft's Emoji includes the skin-tone/hair-color modifiers. But did they include a Ginger (Red-head) variant?

Gingers are real people but Apple acts as though they don't exist.

I'm sick of it, and I'm beginning to think that Apple is racist and prejudiced against Gingers.

Red-heads need Emoji too.

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Those Microsoft emoji look hideous. Glad the only time I have to use Windows is at work and then I'm using Windows 7.

I think they look decent, actually. Nice flat look. Better than Apple's ones.

 

[2457282]

People seem to be getting all worked up over nothing. First the unicode is standard acrross platforms. Second, exactly how many ways are there to implement the smiley face and call it unique (not many and they will all still look similar). Third, do people actually use emoji's?

 

[patrickcwelsh]

I just want a taco emoji.

 

[baryon]

Don't know why but just like people who use ALL CAPS TO TYPE, I immediately think the same of people who use too many different "emojis" lolll lol gtfo

 

[497902]

Reminds me of something.

 

[nagromme]

No similarity.

I really like Apple's emoji, and I hope they keep the shading. At small sizes, that visual information is very useful. You can't make every emoji look like a tiny corporate logo.

I would like to see the glossy "shine" taken off of Apple's emoji, though. Only certain ones have it, but it looks too iOS 6.

 

[jotwee]

My daughter is six years old. She would have done a better job, I guess :')

 

[Black Magic]

Apple needs to allow for you to enlarge the emoji as well as the text messages to emphasis the point. Basically like how Frankly chat gives you the option.....iOS 9 looking at you...

 

[Mrjoedot]

Well, I wouldn't say micrsoft is copying or anything. It is universal thing like alphabet

 

[JetLaw]

It seems to me that, despite having ushered in the era of personal computing, that neither Apple nor Microsoft currently has the ability to create a decent-looking icon.

 

[Gasu E.]

My daughter is six years old. She would have done a better job, I guess :')

"Would have" done a better job? What stopped her?

 

[AlecZ]

I like the MS version of the last one better. The semi-realistic looking people creep me out.

 

[mgipe]

Does there exist a lexicon of all these emoji? I have to admit that I have no idea what 99% of them mean.

 

[Xgm541]

Wow, talk about click bait, MR. I find myself visiting this site less and less.

 

[Renzatic]

First the skin tones, and now this. Never thought a bunch of smiley faces could be so controversial.

 

[scottsjack]

IDK, they include the poop emoji in iOS and Android.

The dark brown ones?

 

[Analog Kid]

The emoji definitions are actually fairly tightly specified, with example drawings in the spec along side the text description.

I still haven't figured out what the blue head color is meant to represent in some of Apple's emoji though...