Microsoft Unveils New Look

[Everlong]

In advance of one of the most significant waves of product launches in Microsoft’s history, today we are unveiling a new logo for the company.

Microsoft Unveils a New Look - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

[FuturDreamz]

Holy crap. I totally called it.

 

[vidanova]

Wow!

 

[x BlueRobot]

I think its looks horrible! So bland and flat, and just...

 

[Everlong]

I quite like it. I was never really a fan of the old one.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

It looks as plain and ugly as the UI formerly known as Metro.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi but what WTFIT!

Who is actually in charge of these organisations.

Who really disseminates this sort of B/S.

Even the cleaning lady would know that this is a piece of B/S. (Is this another "Deal" crafted by the organisation I hate most on this planet -- ACC---ure or as we call it Accidenture.)

Once they infest your organisation they are almost impossible to get rid of (like cockroaches) but it IS possible (with difficulty) -- just make sure your boss doesn't like GOLF as this horrible organisation sponsors the Ryder Cup event.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[lkgriffith]

A dying company almost always comes out with a "new look" and some "new PR" in an attempt to hide the fact they are completely out of ideas for new products that really work in the market place. They repackage the old ideas and call them "fresh", "new", "exciting", et.al. All the while blanking out that calling the same old same old a new name adds nothing of value and doesn't make the old new or better.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has billions of cash on hands so their race to the bottom can last far too long. I am quite confident that they can and will finally reach the bottom. Especially since their managers insist on fixing what isn't broken and forcing their pathetic ideas onto the rest of us. Sadly, Microsoft will join a long list of once great companies who thought they controlled the market and found the market had moved out from under them long before the end.

 

[Brink]

Microsoft logos through the years (pictures)

Over the course of 37 years, Microsoft has had five corporate logos. They changed quickly in the early years, but then the company held steady from 1987 until -- today. Ahead of a big wave of major product rollouts this fall, including Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, the Surface tablet, and the next version of Office, Microsoft has updated its logo once again, after 25 years of holding steady.

Read more at:
Microsoft logo 1975 - Microsoft logos through the years (pictures) - CNET News

 

[PooMan UK]

It's most proberly the best they could come up with using ms paint , it's unbelievably poor, but MS are to tight arsed to out source and come up with some fresh ideas, plus they will end up in court for years to come after stealing someone else's logo then claiming it was their idea from the beginning

One of the poorest re-designs I've ever come across

 

[lkgriffith]

The initial rapid sequence of changes was a signal of a new company attempting to find its identity. They found it with Windows, started dominating the market, and stayed with that identity for 25 years. Now they are fresh out of ideas that actually work so they once again are searching for a new identity without really taking time to understand the identity that made them great. They assumed it was that they controlled the market and that the market would accept any kind of crap they pushed out the door. However, it was the fact that the prior versions of windows allowed the market to choose the look and feel on an individual bases. Windows 8 stops that cold.

Apparently you think it's OK. I think it stinks. I can't use Windows 8 for my purposes BECAUSE I can't choose to configure it so that it looks and works MY way. I am the customer here and I get to decide what is right for me for my own reasons! It is totally irrelevant to me that others find Windows 8 OK.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Personally I believe the logo is an obvious choice, though I was sure it would be used for Windows 9.

In case you haven't noticed, Microsoft is in the process of changing up their products to adapt to a world where people are starting to use smartphones and tablets instad of laptops and desktop computers. The previous Microsoft logo is from an era where Windows more or less operated the same since inception, and is to an extent becoming antiquated. Even Apple changed their logo when they ported their operating system to a unix kernel.

Although Apple simplified their logo to one color to save costs...

 

[SIW2]

It's most proberly the best they could come up with using ms paint , it's unbelievably poor, but MS are to tight arsed to out source and come up with some fresh ideas, plus they will end up in court for years to come after stealing someone else's logo then claiming it was their idea from the beginning

One of the poorest re-designs I've ever come across

Yes, It is in keeping with the metro thing.

 

[SIW2]

Apparently you think it's OK. I think it stinks. I can't use Windows 8 for my purposes BECAUSE I can't choose to configure it so that it looks and works MY way. I am the customer here and I get to decide what is right for me for my own reasons! It is totally irrelevant to me that others find Windows 8 OK.

You can do some work arounds - with effort, hacks and 3rd party programs - but still it comes up short.

That is because we want Windows on a desktop pc.

Win8 is not for that. It is for a tablet.

The desktop users are being deprecated as MS chases a mythical tablet user they think they can ensnare.

How does it feel to be deprecated - like a windows program they have lined up for the chop?

 

[Layback Bear]

FuturDreamz
Now we know who to blame.
http://www.sevenforums.com/member.php?u=45243

 

[SIW2]

Not sure I get that, Layback.

 

[Britton30]

An eighth grade school kid, or first grade, could have done better logo design. They likely paid someone hundreds of thousands of M$$ to come up with it.
I'm sticking with w7 since I have real computers.

 

[Layback Bear]

Holy crap. I totally called it.

Look at his avatar

 

[lkgriffith]

Clearly we have a difference of opinion that cannot be resolved. I require things to service my needs, wants, and preferences for maximum productivity. Others are comfortable only when they fit in with a crowd and can only do things the way everyone else is doing them. Apparently, actual productivity is of a lower priority for them.

I am not, never have been, and never will be part of the crowd. I choose my own path. Up until Windows 8, Microsoft permitted both the crowd and the individual to have things their way. Now it is the crowd's way or nothing. I see this as a monumentally stupid error on Microsoft's part. They insist on chasing the fad of the moment. For the vanishingly little good it does me, I object!

 

[Layback Bear]

A company makes a logo. The logo will not make the company. When a company goes down some strange road a new logo will not help. The road is still strange.