Make current and historical visual design guidelines easier to find

[peteroupc]

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In the Microsoft Learn site, it's currently hard to find historical guidelines on user interface design for previous versions of Windows. These guidelines are currently scattered among multiple pages in the "previous versions" archive, or are accessible only by entering the right search term, etc.

My interest here is especially on visual design guidelines (especially the look and drawing tips) for icons, cursors, graphics, buttons, border styles, wizard watermarks, and other user interface elements. Among them are guidelines from the following:

• Pre-Fluent guidelines for designing icons in Windows 10, especially a discussion on the look of pre-Fluent Windows 10 non-monochrome icons (desktop and file type icons).
• Visual design guidelines for Windows 7.
• "Creating Windows XP icons".
• Visual design guidelines for Windows XP Tablet PC edition.
• MMC 3.0 Guidelines.
• Visual design guidelines from The Microsoft Windows User Experience (Windows 98, Windows 2000).
• Visual design guidelines from The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design (Windows 95).
• Visual design guidelines for Windows 3.1 and earlier (e.g., from The Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide).
• Other guidelines for the visual design of icons, cursors, bitmaps, graphics, control styles, and other user interface elements in previous versions of Windows.

What I would like to see on the site is a single access point to all these guidelines.