MICROSOFT OFFICE IS GETTING A NEW SET OF ICONS

Microsoft Office has been an iconic design since the last update, back in 2013, and now the company has finally decided that it is time for some rebranding.

Every single one of the icons in the Microsoft Office set is getting a refresh across all platforms "in the coming months," Microsoft said in a blog post – their first new look in five years.

All of these well-known logos will be getting upgrades, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and even Skype. The colour palettes for each one of the icons will, fortunately, remain the same, with some slightly updated hues that are brighter and more modern-looking.

Without further ado, here's the new lineup, as compared with the 2013-era icons:

The idea, Microsoft said, is to reflect the change that Office is now less of a software suite and more of a set of cloud-based services you use from a variety of devices.

"Our design solution was to decouple the letter and the symbol in the icons, essentially creating two panels (one for the letter and one for the symbol) that we can pair or separate," Jon Friedman, Microsoft Office's design head, said in the blog post.

Microsoft Office has come a long way since its first software bundle was released in 1990, featuring just three apps: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This is the longest Microsoft has ever gone without updating its Office icons.