Windows 8's new logo: 'It's a window... not a flag'

[Ink]

Microsoft is making plenty of big changes with its Windows 8 operating system, and that has now also extended to a new logo. As explained by Microsoft's Sam Moreau in a post on the official Windows blog, the logo was created with the help of the design agency Pentagram, which posed a simple question when it began on the project: "your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?" That discussion eventually led to the four-paned window you see above, which not only looks more like a window than the previous logos, but clearly echoes the company's new Metro design language.

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[pcjunklist]

I still think they should make 1 of the panes of glass shattered with a patch on it. That way users could be warned that they will receive at least 20 patches every Tuesday that require a reboot.

 

[Prorootect]

This is really bad. I can not believe that 'designer' has taken for this money! Revolting.

PS. Hey M$, for some good ideas, ask talented people, eg.: http://photoextremist.com/

 

[Vextor]

Microsoft is changing completely, and not for the better. Windows 8 is a horrible operating system. It is for a TABLET PC, not a desktop and yet they still bundle the same edition for tablets and PC users. They should at least give the Metro interface only to tablets, or allow the PC users to completely turn it off.
Mac is just as bad. Their trying to bundle iOS into their Mac product, with like the SpringPad, and the changing of scrolling so it's upside down.

The new logo is horrible. The flag has always been symbolic of Windows, and now their changing it. It's like Windows is a religion, and now they want to change everything everybody believes in. Metro is horrible for tablets, and if they want to bring that to desktop, I'm sticking to Windows 7. Microsoft, why?

 

[Prorootect]

Microsoft is changing completely, and not for the better. Windows 8 is a horrible operating system. It is for a TABLET PC, not a desktop and yet they still bundle the same edition for tablets and PC users. They should at least give the Metro interface only to tablets, or allow the PC users to completely turn it off.
Mac is just as bad. Their trying to bundle iOS into their Mac product, with like the SpringPad, and the changing of scrolling so it's upside down.

The new logo is horrible. The flag has always been symbolic of Windows, and now their changing it. It's like Windows is a religion, and now they want to change everything everybody believes in. Metro is horrible for tablets, and if they want to bring that to desktop, I'm sticking to Windows 7. Microsoft, why?

-Agree completely, my bb! So I get the kudos for your post.

My comment:
You demand 'why?' - All this is PROOF that M$ thinks of us like of the sheeps. Me myself, I do not feel to be a sheep .. nor naive, who has his eyes closed and headed the 'new', my bad M$ ..
So why I'm sticked with Windows XP SP2.

But I know that M$ thinks this: 'I want to cut off their supply of old Windows in stores, and provide what I want, that only this latest version (as I did with Vista and Windows7) while new customers will be FORCED to buy what I want.
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[Tom172]

It's just a logo. I don't see what the fuss is about.

 

[pcjunklist]

It's just a logo. I don't see what the fuss is about.

I think it's more than a logo change, i think they are trying to hard to be like apple. In trying so hard to become like apple they are throwing out their common sense. Their #1 customer is the business customer and I don't see anything that windows 8 would offer them. I don't believe in a world run by ipads and the cloud, having all your intellectual property on an internet facing server, what bad could happen!

 

[iScream]

Wow, Windows is heading a bad way.. The metro UI is not comparable to Windows 7's Aero.. And yet they still seem to be thinking everyone will like it. On tablet? One thing. But on desktop? Win XP looks 9999x better.. What are they thinking?

 

[Ink]

The design agency who created new logo:

http://pentagram.com/en/new/2012/02/new-work-microsoft.php

Just add colour. Simples.

 

[jamescv7]

Actually on their newly Windows 8 logo, in my opinion something you cannot feel the newly windows 8 as their logo is simple.

Unlike for Windows 7 its really new native look.

 

[ZeroDay]

I like the new logo tbf