It’s been 25 years since we’ve updated the Microsoft logo and now is the perfect time for a change. This is an incredibly exciting year for Microsoft as we prepare to release new versions of nearly all of our products.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/08/23/microsoft-unveils-a-new-look.aspx

Think of how bad it must be for Nerds who have an old Windows tattoo

why does this warrant a video + a news item ?

o0o0 a company has changed their logo to something extremely similar to every other one they have had.

Quick, someone patent the pantone colours they use in the logo!

Apple lawyers will be furiously examining the logo to determine what patents it infringes on.

Going for the Metro look that no one likes hmm?

i'm a pretty big fan of the metro look. I'm almost convinced my next phone will be a windows phone because of it.

Wow, WTF kind of graphic is that in the window.

Wow, for a 25 year old logo, the old one didn't age too badly really.

It's nice to see a more modern logo, I'm not a huge fan of the symbol as it's a bit too simple and nondifferentiable from a basic shape (I like the simple but unique concept of the slanted look of the Windows 8 symbol), but I do like that they actually have a symbol now and not just a wordmark.

i'm a pretty big fan of the metro look. I'm almost convinced my next phone will be a windows phone because of it.

Yes I'm sure the small number of people who move away from iOS/Android might feel the same, but more people are concerned with Microsoft trying to push a phone-centric paradigm onto their desktop where it 100% does not belong, fullstop.

Way to annoy the hell out of small-business / enterprise customers who don't want an OS that acts like a social networking and media platform.

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Oh no the start menu is fullscreen and easy to read, stop the press!

Yes yes, we've read your numerous Win8 apologist posts in the last Windows thread. No need to go full retard on us now :)

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red, green, blue, and yellow are all common as hell video input colour codes. Try again, noob.

Wow, WTF kind of graphic is that in the window.

I dunno, the whole thing looks like some kind of childrens book. Possibly some weird shit by Dr Seuss.

I can tell you right now, there won't be any metro foxes in any of my boxes.

Yes I'm sure the small number of people who move away from iOS/Android might feel the same, but more people are concerned with Microsoft trying to push a phone-centric paradigm onto their desktop where it 100% does not belong, fullstop.

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I'm actually looking forward to putting it on my computer as well *shrug* my desktop has only the recycle bin, i only use the programs pinned to my start bar and if i want to use something different, i just press windows key and type the program...even at work.

That said, I haven't used it so I can't really complain but i like a lot of the features.

A new logo will hopefully distract everyone from the fact that w8 is shite

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/why_microsoft_got_its_logo_right.php

Apple lawyers will be furiously examining the logo to determine what patents it infringes on.

apple fanboys beat them to the punch:
http://www.andrewbrettwatson.com/index.php/apple2/162-new-microsoft-logo-looks-like-apple-corporate-font
lolz

apple fanboys beat them to the punch:http://www.andrewbrettwatson.com/index.php/apple2/162-new-microsoft-logo-looks-like-apple-corporate-fontlolz

Yeah the writer actually admits in the replies that he didn't know that microsoft actually 'invented' and therefore by extension own the license to it. It's similar to the one that apple used, but they invented theirs to circumvent paying licensing fees on the font and called it Myriad set (Avoiding both license fees to microsoft for not being Segoe and to adobe who own Myriad).

The font segoe has been around inside MS OS's for what like a decade and a half or more?

Both are actually based on Frutiger.

MS didn't create segoe, monotype did.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uF6qEmoNJu8/T_TBMV22g4I/AAAAAAAAWec/lpbKNQXY4zw/s1600/Microsoft-Windows-logo-history.jpg