looks like I am the only one who thinks the new logo is nicer, I never really liked the old one with the wavy fluttering flag type logo.... but then i've never even liked msft.
There's no successor name to Metro. Any recent reviews that mentions that UI is still referring to Metro. The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro hasn't caught on and I hope doesn't.
I have been a lifetime Microsoft user and typically an early adopter, particularly in the late 90s. Never used an Apple product other than an iPod. I have not read the previous comments. My initial thought when seeing the new Microsoft logo was "square". Is it in Microsoft's favor, in today's environment, to depict themselves as square? Most everything in the computing environment today is fluid and to graphically say "We're Square!" doesn't seem to me to give them a market advantage. We'll see. When it comes down to it the products will determine their future success or failure.
Meh, it's a nice logo I guess. Maybe I'm over-thinking this, but from the video, it looks like the blue square represented Windows, then the orange square represented Office (but they showed a 3-D square or something), then the green square seemed to be XBOX (but they just showed the round normal XBOX logo there) and then the yellow square.....wait.....what about the yellow square? Were they going somewhere with this???
They were quite historically lucky really, I think the squares were originally a window pane (i.e. emphasis on the cross between the squares, not the squares themselves), but simply by changing the emphasis to the squares, it now represents the tiles in their new GUI.
The new logo is the only excitement in Windows 8 But Microsoft has a large user base and any improvement will get attention at the beginning but quickly for out.
Where I work we unveiled an "exciting new logo" a few years ago that was similarly uninspired and unveiled with the same "excitement." I bet they spent countless hours discussin the precise shade of grey for the wording and the relative size of the 4 squares. This is one of those times you can feel good about yourself knowing that you didn't make the career choice to focus on "visual identity."
Well, to be fair, Steve was famous for agonizing over minute differences of shade for damned paint on factory machinery.
I quite like the new logo. More to the point, it was urgently needed - the previous MS logo looked really dated and gave the impression of a 20th-century company.
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(So happy I left Windows behind years ago. Look at the last 7 years. What's happened in Redmond? A whole lotta NOTHING.)
Well, for a start, Windows 7 has been released - an acclaimed and highly successful operating system whose sales dwarf those of OS X.
It's ok. I know how tough it can be to create a new logo and there will always be those that don't like whatever gets chosen. It's the nature of design.
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I will miss the old logo, that thing the "o" and "s" had going on.
AI, It's not called Metro anymore...
looks like I am the only one who thinks the new logo is nicer, I never really liked the old one with the wavy fluttering flag type logo.... but then i've never even liked msft.
Looks good to me. A little too much like a product logo, maybe, but only in comparison to other Microsoft designs.
You know when a corp lost his way, they usually goes back to basic. Like Apple has done before by changing his multicolored logo with a solid one.
But this is ridiculous, even Windows 1 had a more distinctive logo than that!
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AI, It's not called Metro anymore...
There's no successor name to Metro. Any recent reviews that mentions that UI is still referring to Metro. The-UI-formerly-known-as-Metro hasn't caught on and I hope doesn't.
it has squares, so it's already patented by apple. haven't they been following the apple/samsung case?
I have been a lifetime Microsoft user and typically an early adopter, particularly in the late 90s. Never used an Apple product other than an iPod. I have not read the previous comments. My initial thought when seeing the new Microsoft logo was "square". Is it in Microsoft's favor, in today's environment, to depict themselves as square? Most everything in the computing environment today is fluid and to graphically say "We're Square!" doesn't seem to me to give them a market advantage. We'll see. When it comes down to it the products will determine their future success or failure.
They were quite historically lucky really, I think the squares were originally a window pane (i.e. emphasis on the cross between the squares, not the squares themselves), but simply by changing the emphasis to the squares, it now represents the tiles in their new GUI.
But Microsoft has a large user base and any improvement will get attention at the beginning but quickly for out.
No, No, No, No.....
The pixelated edition is apparently copied from Apple, too:
http://scoopertino.com/apple-unveils-low-cost-cornea-display/
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it has squares, so it's already patented by apple. haven't they been following the apple/samsung case?
Don't confuse your self between squares and rounded rect.
They've actually managed to make the logo AS BORING AS IS, WAS, OR EVER WILL BE possible.
Makes me think of a pharmaceutical company, actually -- further proof that the powers-that-be in Redmond actually ARE on drugs???!!
(Nah, drugs would make them MORE interesting, not less...)
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Originally Posted by malax
Where I work we unveiled an "exciting new logo" a few years ago that was similarly uninspired and unveiled with the same "excitement." I bet they spent countless hours discussin the precise shade of grey for the wording and the relative size of the 4 squares. This is one of those times you can feel good about yourself knowing that you didn't make the career choice to focus on "visual identity."
Well, to be fair, Steve was famous for agonizing over minute differences of shade for damned paint on factory machinery.
I quite like the new logo. More to the point, it was urgently needed - the previous MS logo looked really dated and gave the impression of a 20th-century company.
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Originally Posted by Quadra 610
(So happy I left Windows behind years ago. Look at the last 7 years. What's happened in Redmond? A whole lotta NOTHING.)
Well, for a start, Windows 7 has been released - an acclaimed and highly successful operating system whose sales dwarf those of OS X.
Call that 'nothing' if you want to.
It is an improvement although I think the font is too bold.
It's ok. I know how tough it can be to create a new logo and there will always be those that don't like whatever gets chosen. It's the nature of design.
Maybe. A very strong sedative just might make Ballmer less interesting. Marginally. Maybe.
Sleepy. This logo is making you very sleepy.
...zzz........