MS Word diskette icon does is not look little obsolete?

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I'm busy making source tables to my thesis, truth be told I would prefer to play my favorite Sims 3, but the thesis will not write itself

I decided to take a break, I clicked on the icon floppy disk to save the results of my work.

I do not know maybe I'm a nerd but I began to wonder why microsoft is using as the save icon symbol floppy, who the heck today uses floppy disks

Maybe in the new Office uses a different symbol, I have Office 2010 Home and Student

Hitting the combination 'Ctrl+s' does the same thing.

I've been wondering that too, but I suppose it's just because it's always been that, so changing it would make some people confused/unhappy

That's how it's always been, and though it's been years since I've used a floppy disc, whenever I edit a text file on Linux (where the floppy icon has been abandoned in favor of a square with an arrow pointing down), I still often find myself wondering where the heck the save icon is.

There's a floppy disk icon in Visual Studio 2013 as well. I guess it's still used because it was the first convenient and cheap way to store data.

I still use floppy disks for the Amiga/Atari ST computers. MS-DOS is actually really useful for formatting ST disks and I can even use high density disks if I format them for DD on the ST.

But, even so, most of the retro computers have branched out to digital media. With the right device, a 2GB SD card will provide enough storage for thousands of games.

The save icon is understood by most people to mean save your current file to disk. While the floppy disk is obsolete the image is still associated with saving a file. If there was an image of something else it would just cause confusion. Similarly with other icons for open file or print.

The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFloppy ... ymore.aspx

Why do we still call entering a phone number into a telephone "dialing", even though the rotary dial on telephones hasn't been used in over 25 years. The same thing holds true for that floppy icon. It will be around for years to come and will still be use by a generation who has no idea what a floppy disk is.

The word dial comes from the Latin dialis = "daily", and comes from the fact that a sundial throws a shadow related to the time of day. It was also used to describe the gear in a medieval clock which turned once per day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialling

The symbol next to a hard drive LED is a cylinder from the days when hard drives were filing cabinet sized and stored data on cylindrical stacks of disk platters.