Microsoft has made it clear that it doesn't plan on bringing this new emoji to Windows 10, as per The Verge. It's still expected that 3D and animated versions of these Fluent emoji will appear in products like Microsoft Teams, but if you want the new emoji in Windows then you'll need to upgrade to Windows 11. While Apple uses bitmaps to render its emoji, Microsoft uses a vector format which is far more scalable and has file size benefits if emoji are flatter.

Instead of using PNG images, they introduced a support for layered vector glyphs By default, the new Segoe UI Emoji font behaves like a regular TrueType/OpenType font. But they did it in a very different way than Apple and Google. The lack of 3D could be related to technical limitations of Microsoft's color font format that the company uses to display emoji inside Windows. With Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s operating system now also supports color emoji.

This same blog post still pointed out that Microsoft 'opted for 3D designs over 2D and chose to animate the majority of our emoji.' It's not clear if users will ever see the impressive 3D emoji inside Windows 11 that Microsoft demonstrated earlier this year. We still offer an assortment of emojis for Windows 10 customers,' explained Microsoft in a quiet update to its design blog from July. 'The new emoji style is only available in Windows 11 and is 2D.

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