Microsoft Introduces a New Corporate Logo

Microsoft has introduced the new corporate logo.  The last time this was updated was 25 years ago, and comes in line with the Windows 8 design.

What do you think?

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http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/08/23/microsoft-unveils-a-new-look.aspx

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Reply #1 Top

Bland.

Reply #2 Top

pukesthetics galore :sick:

Reply #3 Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 1
Bland.

Sums it up for me as well.

Reply #5 Top

Ridiculous! :S

Reply #6 Top

Metrosoft

Reply #7 Top

wow....4 colored boxes and the word Microsoft.....I'll bet it took them weeks of brainstorming to come up with that one.   -- Ace --

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Quoting AceMatrix, reply 7
wow....4 colored boxes and the word Microsoft.....I'll bet it took them weeks of brainstorming to come up with that one.   -- Ace --

 

Yeah, and like the dummies they are of late, they probably paid some company $50,000 to come up with it! :rofl:

Reply #10 Top

 meh

Reply #11 Top

constructed, hard, uniform, unbending, solid,  no free flowing lines,  no modern round soft shapes or good feel colours  ... as Jafo said 'Bland'

Big risk linking a logo to a non proven product ... you should only change your logo if you are trying to reconnect to the customers and want to repackage your company ... would be ideal for a company which makes kids colour blocks, and they would use bright happy (not old man safe) colours.

Now I look at it, it doesn't have any active elements creating movement ... :sick:

Reply #12 Top

They should have used the Windows7 flag.  It is the last known good configuration. :-"

Reply #13 Top

Past logos: 

 

It's less bland than the last one.

Reply #14 Top

The letters are still in the correct order. That's something to be pleased about.

Reply #15 Top

Clearly they should have asked VStyler to do one for them.

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Quoting DaveRI, reply 15
Clearly they should have asked VStyler to do one for them.

 

Yep, and they should have had him design the Windows 8 GUI too! :)

Reply #17 Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 16

Quoting DaveRI, reply 15Clearly they should have asked VStyler to do one for them.

 

Yep, and they should have had him design the Windows 8 GUI too!

Would look one helluva lot better.... and then I could bug him about the Start Button forever!  XD

Reply #18 Top

Guys, I hate to break it to ya....

 

That's not a Corporate Logo...it's a Corporate Nogo.   ;P

Reply #19 Top

It has always been said that Microsoft was rather good with software but short on artistic ability.... now it seems [with Win 8's "don't call it Metro anymore" on the horizon] both abilities are in serious doubt.

Now if anybody wanted to know how lo Microsoft could go, they only have to look at the lo go to see it's way down there with the cellar dwellers...

..... and I'll bet Beelzebub is resenting the rude incursion into his depths.... :-"

Reply #21 Top

micro S O F T.......

Does that about do it?

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Reply #23 Top

Think of the words "micro" and "soft".....

 

Doesn't really sound that virile does it? O:) :rofl: :P

Reply #24 Top

Quoting 2of3, reply 23
Think of the words "micro" and "soft".....

 

Doesn't really sound that virile does it?

Brilliant!!!!

And at last, somebody has stumbled on how MS got its name!!!!

Yeah, Bill and Melinda were laying in bed one night... his mind on one thing, hers on another.

Deep in thought, Bill pipes up and asks Melinda: "So what do you think I should call the company?"

Melinda, with her mind deep in yet another bedroom disappointment retorts: "Microsoft!"

:-"