Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

What the hell is this? Are they trying to take the Gap approach and turn out a turd so terrible that designers storm the campus and flood them with better logos?

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by VMG » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

Interesting... I've never seen this before: http://i.imgur.com/Ag3fl.jpg

Edit: found better res

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by girlvinyl » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

The 1975-1979 logo is neat. I actually really like it. The new one is so boring.

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by sudonim » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

The logo is O.K. Their homepage http://microsoft.com looks like a mix between a "corporate" website template you'd buy for $50 and a domain squatting page with amazon referral links.

Gosh I want to cheer for microsoft but they make it real hard.

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by fuzzix » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:08 PM UTC

VMG wrote: post #5

Interesting... I've never seen this before: http://i.imgur.com/Ag3fl.jpg Edit: found better res

I did vote for that one, but I am listening to 80s metal right now - that may have influenced me.

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by astrodust » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:08 PM UTC

quarterto wrote: post #2

I... don't hate it. What's wrong with me? It's bold, it's fresh, it does a pretty damn good job of shrugging off the Microsoft of the past 25 years.

You mean the one that utterly dominated the computer market and made money by the truckload when other companies could barely survive?

Well, at least that's over now.

Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

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Post by rkwz » Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 2:09 PM UTC

I wonder why they didn't choose this logo (colorful tiles) for Windows.