Anybody notice this is basically the AVG logo with the colors flipped around? See: http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
I'd say the AVG logo is the Windows logo with colors flipped around since AVG was born in 1991. :)
Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
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Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is wrong with that url (except default.aspx)? It's widely used and I like if I'm not forced to some region or locale based on my IP and Accept-Language. Well, I still am but I can change it easily if they give me this url (or even better link on a page).
IP-sniffing is evil; I'm not advocating that. Accept-Language is trivial to change; on Opera, it's one of the three things on the first tab of Preferences, and I can set it for all sites rather than on a per-site basis.
I wonder how you change it in the browser of another person that you sent this link to.
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#153I still don't get why Microsoft is pushing Metro SO HARD to bet everything on it when nobody really likes it that much.
Zune (where I saw it for the first time) failed in the market. Windows Mobile (that has the Metro theme) failed in the market. Now I don't know XBox (at all) and its GUI, but its success happened long before Metro was created.
People don't seem to like it in the new Windows preview all that much, either.
Why the big bet on Metro?
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#154I prefer the windows 8 logo much more: http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign/imageca...
The unsolicited redesign "slate" logo is cool too: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft....
Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
#155I still don't get why Microsoft is pushing Metro SO HARD to bet everything on it when nobody really likes it that much. Zune (where I saw it for the first time) failed in the market. Windows Mobile (that has the Metro theme) failed in the market. Now I don't know XBox (at all) and its GUI, but its success happened long before Metro was created. People don't seem to like it in the new Windows preview all that much, ei…
Similarly the Ribbon. The Ribbon was supposed to make Office easier to use. It was so incomprehensible (not to mention annoying and wasteful of screen real estate), Microsoft created a GAME to explain to users how to use the Ribbon. (How bad a UI fail is that?) Still no-one likes it, so they shoehorn it into more places.
I think Microsoft gets that Apple doesn't allow itself to be driven by focus groups, but instead they allow random insane people to drive them.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand what mean about it not being part of Microsoft's DNA, but it seems like you're trying to blame Microsoft's poor web presence on its age. How do you then rationalize other pre-Web companies like IBM and Apple who have managed to successfully embrace it?
IBM and Apple each have a more homogeneous audience. IBM is a consulting company and courts mid- to upper-level manager types with purchasing authority. After few seconds on the page you are invited to speak with a sales consultant via a popup. Apple is focused exclusively on the (premium) consumer space. Both companies represent top-down totalitarianism (I say this without value-connotation): IBM suggest corporate c…
I've said it before, but I feel Microsoft's problem is that they cannot say no to things.
This serves them well in the Enterprise, where every installation requires customisations (and people can afford to pay for the maintenance of those customisations) but spills over into everything they do, meaning they cannot keep things simple.
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#157for me it looks like chrome
Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
IBM and Apple each have a more homogeneous audience. IBM is a consulting company and courts mid- to upper-level manager types with purchasing authority. After few seconds on the page you are invited to speak with a sales consultant via a popup. Apple is focused exclusively on the (premium) consumer space. Both companies represent top-down totalitarianism (I say this without value-connotation): IBM suggest corporate c…
Apple sold 18.65M iPhones in Q2 2011, that's iPhone alone, I think calling Apple's audience homogeneous is ridiculous, and falls under the same as "mac is for designers" old-fashion statement.
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Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
#159Clearly, this will get the masses to dump their iPhones and embrace Windows Phones
Re: Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987
#160Clearly, this will get the masses to dump their iPhones and embrace Windows Phones