Why are the Visual Studio 2010 icons blurry when compared to the Visual Studio 2005 icons?

Question

http://imgur.com/5Grp6

That image shows what I'm talking about. Visual Studio 2010 on the left, Visual Studio 2005 on the right.

If you ignore the jpeg compression artifacts you can tell that the left icons are much blurrier than the right icons.

Is there some way to turn off this anti-aliasing?

Answer 1

Developers seem to have a strong urge to change every icon people are used to, to be fancy, 3D and anti-aliased.

What was wrong with Office icons only god knows. Or why the clear and yellow speaker icon got replaced by two concentric circles, with 3d effects.