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Microsoft redesigns its logo for Windows 8
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has allegedly reworked its legendary logo for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system release.
The Windows logo has always been a distinct multi-coloured waving flag that has continuously evolved over the years. Microsoft has prepared a significant redesign for Windows 8 which is monochromatic and straight cut, according to an image released by Cnbeta.
The potentially faked image has been backed up by a photograph of a tablet with the logo on a lone button. The traditional coloured flag now looks like a 3D view of a Cornish flag.
Microsoft's new minimalist and simple logo design does fit in with the metro look interface on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. If this leaked image is the new Windows logo it will mean the familiar wavy squares will be put to bed after 22 years.
Microsoft will unveil its Windows 8 consumer preview beta release later this month during Mobile World Congress. µ
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@SYG no one wants Linux - market share is tiny and not growing. Android is also having major security issues as it is built on the Swiss Cheese that is Linux. For instance SUSE11 - 1700 security vulnerabilities (see Secunia.org), thats about ten times as many as Windows Server 2008 R2.
If you are brave enough to run an Internet facing Linux server you are several times more likely to be hacked than if you run a Windows one (2010 website defacement statistics)
Windows 8 techical preview was downloadable since last year, and the feature complete beta ships on the 29th February, so hardly vapourware.
What's Cornish about it? I must be missing something here...
All this talk about the nonexistent "Windows 8". Well, I don't see it in any stores, so it's vapourware. By contrast, excellent Linux distros like Ubuntu and LinuxMint are here *today*. Android is here *today*. Who needs this mythical "Windows 8"? Steve Ballmer and his employees, maybe, but not me.
--SYG
Cornwall should sue...
I hope this time they improve other things than just visual effects
The "wavy flag" has been used since 1992, so it's 20 years, not 22. Windows 3.0, released in 1990, just had an image of a window (as in the glass type!) in its About box.
...to anyone with an Asus UX21/UX31, who's been looking at a monochrome (but not squared-off, as in the Photoshopped image) Windows logo on a keyboard sticker since late 2011, when the laptop debuted.
Looks like the Micro$oft symbol resembles a fading away style .
Cellphones and tablets are taking over and Winders is just now getting into that game . But hey if you have billions to burn .
This is clearly a photoshop job. Here's the original.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secrets-windows-8-dropping-start-button-142236
The new Logo is smashing, I think.
This is the kind of INNOVATION we have come to expect from the company that invented the internet, the personal computer, the graphical user interface and the multitasking operating system.
Where would we be without them?
to cheap to buy differant colors of ink?