[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by ApK

The metaphor of "desktop", "folder" and such, underlying most windows-like desktop operating environments. It is the standard term, IIRC.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics...sktop-metaphor

Gotcha. I'd never heard it referred to that in way before.

Originally Posted by ApK

So extending the common folder metaphor to "zip compressed folders" seems appropriate to me considering how they are most commonly used.
ApK

I disagree. It may be how most people see/use it, but that has little to do with whether or not it was appropriate for Microsoft to encourage the use case in the first place. It may have become appropriate (though I'd suggest the word "commonplace" over appropriate). It's just my opinion that it shouldn't have. The icons they chose are just as blameworthy for conflating the two non-alike things.