What about the “B” drive? That character was used for the 5″ floppy disks. Why can’t a hard disk have the “B”?

Although it seems inevitable, I don’t see why it needs to be replaced. It’s finally a universally understandable icon and now we need to change it? It’s almost an instinct to click it, and with everyone deciding they need new, unique, glossy, big-easy-to-read icons, it’s just confusing everyone. I don’t need a 100×100 button to save, I’m sure most of us just CTRL+S anyway.

The floppy will always be ‘save’ to me. The icon has now come to mean more than the object it represents. I wouldn’t make it an hdd because, what next? SSD? a cube to show a holographic storage unit? a memristor?

@Steve – LOMAO! :lol:

It should become Jesus, then Jesus really does save.

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Continuing my point above about the change of the Save icon to an Iomega Zip Disk in Microsoft Office 2004, it turns out that Microsoft changed it back to the 3.5″ floppy icon in Office 2007 for Windows, and also in the upcoming Office 2008 for Mac.

Hmm… That’s actually even a weirder choice. I’m pretty much the only person I know who actually owned an Iomega zip drive and some disks. The zip format never really became as ubiquitous as floppies, CD’s or USB flash drives.

I can kinda see the resemblance to the zip disk in this picture, but if asked random people about it, they would probably say it’s a floppy.

Actually, on Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac OS X, the save icon is not a floppy. It is an Iomega Zip Disk.

Here is a cropped screenshot (small image so easy to miss).

Zip Disks are also obsolete, but at least Microsoft is trying to keep up-to-date. :) I imagine this icon is also used on recent Windows versions of Word – have a look.