Microsoft May Retire Wavy Windows Logo

[jimbo45]

Hi there
the world is full of slick advertising agencies suggesting corporations abandon well liked and trusted logos for rediculous new stuff that bears no relationship to the product they are trying to sell.

Example --British Post Office -- Royal Mail a trusted brand changed to "Consignia" of all things -- as soon as I heard this my first thought was this means "Consigned to the Bin".

Conservative Party in the UK -- swapped an acceptable logo for a rediculous Green Tree which is in NO way passes its message over to its core supporters or to any potential recruits -- just makes it look SILLY.

B.T with that stupid Trumpet logo

Andersens Consulting changing to Accenture -- now laughingly known as ACCIDENTURE to people in the I.T industry.

and so on and so on.

If something works and is trusted then as an Engineer I suscribe to the Engineers adage --IF IT'S NOT BROKEN DON'T FIX IT.

Why on earth should MS get rid of its Windows logo.What would it do better !!.

If you want to see a prime example of "Modern accessible" logos that are a total laughing stock look no further than that GHASTLY (obviously selected by a "PC Correct committee") logo being used for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Dwarf]

Well said, Jimbo.

If they're on about changing the logo, then I think that Dennis's suggestion of SBSP is as good an idea as any. In fact, MS could bring Bob out of retirement and then we would have MSBSP (Microsoft Bob Square Pants).

 

[Everlong]

Yeah, hopefully they'll at least add the traditional colors to the squares.

Yea my thoughts as well. I can understand them changing it to reflect the metro UI, but not with just one colour.

 

[GARoss]

Let's hope the article is wrong.

 

[Maguscreed]

I've always thought they should take advantage of 3d and make it a window that infinitely opens on itself.

 

[seekermeister]

Let's hope the article is wrong.

When I read something like this, I tend to think of when politicians leak something to the press, just to see how it will fly. If that is the case, then I doubt that MS will be dumb enough to change it as depicted in that article, because I'm pretty sure that they keep tabs on this forum, and are getting a pretty good idea that logo will crash and burn.

 

[seekermeister]

I've always thought they should take advantage of 3d and make it a window that infinitely opens on itself.

Fascinating idea, but perhaps too fascinating. That kind of reminds me of the old spinning spiral that was supposed to be able to hypnotize one. Some people are already too fascinated with their computers after reaching desktop, they don't need to be hypnotized before they even login.

 

[PooMan UK]

Once we get our hands on it we will change it beyond recognition anyhow, and I can guarantee you it will look a dam site better than what they are showing us at the moment .... looks like someone doodled it on their deskpad

 

[Urthboundmisfit]

here's my sponge bob 8 version
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Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!

I've always thought they should take advantage of 3d and make it a window that infinitely opens on itself.

Silver.

Your idea has been syndicated, processed, reviewed, and copyrighted. Thus it now belongs to me. ...and I'm suing your for the punitive damages I've suffered having to steal it from you. Welcome to corporate America, have a nice day

Bronze.

 

[jloc]

It's a window. I love the Windows 98 logo :3

 

[Urthboundmisfit]

It's a window. I love the Windows 98 logo :3

For you, jloc:

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[MRValiant]

It's dated

 

[slizz189]

they should just use the 98 logo

I can see their efforts towards a more "modern" logo, but they're not there yet.
Boobah's colored version of the logo actually looked pretty good, where did you find it, or did you make it?

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Just playing with it for now...


or a white background

 

[Maguscreed]

yeah I used to have a wallpaper of a clear windows logo that looked really slick... let me see if I can find it real quick.

...well it's not the exact one I had in mind but I found one that was close.


it seems this is something a lot of people have worked with over the years.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=i...l3439l0l3708l18l18l0l2l2l0l117l1103l14.2l16l0


Perhaps a competition to design the new logo is in order?

 

[jloc]

It's a window. I love the Windows 98 logo :3

For you, jloc:

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That's what I'm talking about! Thanks for that, brings back the memories

 

[Maguscreed]

I still think a competition would be the best way to do this if they were in fact going to do it. Imagine the 1,000's of professional designers and amateurs too that would be submitting some really awesome ideas that we didn't even think of... nor did microsoft.

I'm sure there's a way to make the logo new without dropping what has made it so recognizable over the years.

 

[Urthboundmisfit]

That's what I'm talking about! Thanks for that, brings back the memories

Memories? They were more like nightmares for me when I tried to get it running in VM last month...couldn't get anything beyond FF 1.5 to run semi-smoothly, Flash was a nightmare...etc

In case you wanna take a shot: A pretty good place to start... this one too...

 

[TBoyd]

Microsoft first introduced its four-color Windows logo over two decades ago with the launch of Windows 3.0 in May 1990 and it's been waving ever since. It's been altered over the years, with the Redmond software giant adding color gradients, shading, reflections, and other artistry tidbits to maintain a modern flair, but with the launch of Windows 8, the familiar logo might undergo a somewhat radical makeover.

Read more at:
Maximum PC | Microsoft May Retire Wavy Windows Logo

WOW! Microsoft must have invested millions of dollars & years of research on this new logo!

NOT!

BTW - Love the Sponge Bob logo!

 

[jloc]

they should just use the 98 logo

I can see their efforts towards a more "modern" logo, but they're not there yet.
Boobah's colored version of the logo actually looked pretty good, where did you find it, or did you make it?

I agree. Even though the 98 logo is old, it actually looks pretty new. It could be a sort of retro look