win8 Microsoft confirms the new Windows 8 logo

[Zain Adeel]

Meh.. :( then again.. Its hard to come up with something other than 4 tiles to represent start. Old logo FTW but this looks better than the mockup. again. I don't know how will it hold own its own without the text

[Rudy]

If they wanted less colours they should have went with the Longhorn style Windows logo, it was simple yet elegant

edit: Example: http://www.winsupers...h_alpha_048.gif (don't look at the ugly visual style, just the Windows logo in the start button)

[Emil Valsson]

I'm guessing Apple is having a blast now. Seriously Microsoft, you lack some serious coolness.

[Chris123NT]

I think I need to get into graphic design and try to get my company hired by MS.... LOL

LOL yeah, the whole thing is crazy, stupid designs and did you see the woman who demoed Win 8 at CES 2012? She was a total idiot, listen to how she described the hardware in various machines, it literally made me laugh and say how the hell does this woman work for Microsoft.

[Motoko.]

I like it.

[jakem1]

Personally I think they should have used something similar to the WP7.5 logo

[Guest glyfz]

Must have taken a whole 2 minutes to create that, flat and boring, suppose it fits in with metro which is, well, flat and boring!

[Ryster]

If they wanted less colours they should have went with the Longhorn style Windows logo, it was simple yet elegant

edit: Example: http://www.winsupers...h_alpha_048.gif (don't look at the ugly visual style, just the Windows logo in the start button)

How is the new logo much different? They're both monochrome, and the new one just has straight edges rather than wavy, and is rotated to a slight perspective angle.

Here's the logo white on a grey background:

Personally I prefer it this way. Getting back to how the logo was originally intended to look... like a Window.. you know, like the product name. Not a flag.

[Rudy]

How is the new logo much different? They're both monochrome, and the new one just has straight edges rather than wavy, and is rotated to a slight perspective angle.

Here's the logo white on a grey background:

The bigger version also has some shading to it if I remember correctly

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Yuck. Just as yucky as metro.

Really not enjoying Microsoft nuke Windows to the ground graphically (IMO). Not as if they've ever really created anything nice (XP..... Vista..... :/), but Metro is taking things to a new level of terrible.

As much as I love Windows 7 as an operating system over Mac, I simply cannot understand why such a rich corporation can't hire decent GUI staff, or bump some from Apple.

[Astra.Xtreme]

I like the simplicity of it, but I don't agree with using the same color for the logo and text. Black text would make it look much better, imo.

[shockz]

It seems MS is on a mission to make 8 the ugliest version ever.

[neingesicht]

Not a huge fan of the new logo.

[M_Lyons10]

I'm not against this logo, I do like it for the most part. It just seems odd to me that they would be going against their iconic red, green, blue, yellow color scheme. From a branding standpoint I think it would have made more sense to carry those colors over to this new logo... This one looks like a Metro version of the Azure logo to me.

[.Neo]

People didn't do Windows 8 justice when they said "Microsoft is going back to Windows 3.1". They're actually going back to Windows 1.0! :laugh:

[Xerax]

They hired a company to do this? A 5 year old could do this in photoshop in 5 minutes.

This logo is crap.

Or by a 17 year old in 5 minutes (my avatar).

[sc302 Veteran]

I like the idea of it looking like a window, but how bout looking like a window and looking at something on the other side. Maybe making it look like a window, with panes, trim molding, and what not, and in each pane have a different application running...Internet, in one, show the calculator in another to show number crunching power, maybe show a document in another pane to show wordprocessing, and another green pane looking at a power station to show that it likes the environment or some crap like that. This would show that windows is multifunctioning operating system that has been refreshed once again.

I like the basic look though, it makes you think that they went back to basics...but going back to basics isn't what is needed in the world or for that matter really wanted.

[Syanide]

Personally I think they should have used something similar to the WP7.5 logo

Yup, this is a simplification while retaining familiarity. I have no doubt that the general public will get used to the new one after a short while (plus Microsoft will have heavy marketing for it for sure), but I don't really see the point.

[cropcircles]

God it looks awful :(

+ 1 Lets just jump back to 1975 and bring back the K cars too. Put some frickn' color to it at least

[Jygoro]

It's OK. What I want to know is did they consult Bill Gates before doing this?

[MFH]

So they admit that Windows 8 was directly inspired by Windows 1's design?

[subcld]

i still don't know if i like it or not i have mixture feeling between like and dislike i prefer windows phone logo

[MS Bob 11]

So what part of using plain solid colors is good design? Do people like going color blind or wearing monochrome-glasses for life just for fashion or fun? Let's all enforce 16-color palettes and bitmaps everywhere and enjoy!

[KevinN206]

Well I guess the reason why they didn't go with the traditional multi-colored window is because they want the entire Windows logo color to match the user's color theme. It's kinda like Windows Phone 7 where changing the theme color also changes certain tile and text colors. I think they explained this in the post.

With that said, I think the perspective on the windows clashes with the non-perspective of the text. Likewise, it'll clash with the Charm bar icons, since I believe those don't have perspective. I think taking Windows 1.0 logo would look better.

[0sit0]

Microsoft going metro and OSX going the iOS way... yikes! Do not like the future lol :wacko: