New Microsoft Logo

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-19 15:27
  [Image: http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p101/KunaixIchigo/windows-1-logo-4f3ec5c-intro.png]

  
  
  

  he multicolored Windows flag is no more. Windows 8 will do away with the wavy Windows logo that Microsoft has used in one form or another for the last 20 years, and replace it with a logo that's, well, a window.
  
  Windows 8 ushers in a new, and completely different, Windows look and feel: it brings the Metro design concept to the desktop. With Metro's emphasis on clean lines and typography, Microsoft wanted a logo that reflected these ideals, and so commissioned agency Pentagram to create the new logo.
  
  Though Microsoft is showing off the logo in blue, in Windows 8 it will change color to match the user's preference.
  
  The new logo harks back to the very earliest Windows logos: the simple stylized Windows 1 logo, which represented on-screen windows rather than things with panes of glass, and the old "Windows compatible" black and white hole-in-the-wall window.
  
  The Windows logo has been a flag since 1992's Windows 3.1. The waves of the flag give a sense of motion, apparently, but didn't make a whole lot of sense. In the words of Pentagram's Paula Scher, "Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?"
  
  Of course, in a few years time, when Metro has become familiar and the desktop gets phased out, a similar question will be asked of the entire Windows name. You see, Metro doesn't have windows at all.

  
  
  http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/a-flag-no-more-microsoft-unveils-new-windows-logo.ars
  
  yay
  a logo that isn't so hippy
• Tarvos wrote on 2012-02-20 00:43
  "back in my day, we used windows 95 and had dial up! It took actual time to load up a page! Also the windows logo was a flag! None of this windows stuff."
  
  I feel slightly older now... Though, I've always interpreted the old windows logo as a distorted 4-color window, not a flag.
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-02-20 00:47
  wtf is this
• Cucurbita wrote on 2012-02-20 00:58
  They made it using MS paint. Duh.
• Akemii wrote on 2012-02-20 00:59

  Quote from The Hero Luka;779383:

  They made it using MS paint. Duh.

  
  
  Rep+
• Claudia wrote on 2012-02-20 01:41
  God, that looks so...scholarly and boring.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-02-20 02:02

  Quote from The Hero Luka;779383:

  They made it using MS paint. Duh.

  
  
  Needs more jpeg artifacts.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-02-20 02:04

  Quote from Claudia;779429:

  God, that looks so...scholarly and boring.

  
  This.
  
  It looks like a logo that should've been around in 1995, and then got upgraded to our old logo. How dull and forgettable.
• Micho wrote on 2012-02-20 02:05
  What, I liked. The four colors of Windows.
  
  I dun liek this. CHANGE IS NEVER GOOD.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-02-20 02:09
  Hell, that blue doesn't even look like a freaking window.
• Science wrote on 2012-02-20 02:12
  [Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Windows_8_Logo.svg/800px-Windows_8_Logo.svg.png]

  
  
  Isn't this the new one? o 3o
  
  Looks fine to me.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-02-20 02:15

  Quote from Science;779465:

  [Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Windows_8_Logo.svg/800px-Windows_8_Logo.svg.png]

  
  
  Isn't this the new one? o 3o
  
  Looks fine to me.

  
  
  That's when you start the computer.
  
  The other is the brand logo.
• Science wrote on 2012-02-20 02:17

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;779466:

  That's when you start the computer.
  
  The other is the brand logo.

  
  
  Thought the other was the original Windows thing for Windows 1.
• Zack wrote on 2012-02-20 02:18
  They both are lame
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-02-20 03:24
  WTF, dislike! D:
  All that Windows legacy, gone. u_u;;
  It also looks kind of odd, together with that oldschool font.