Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Summary: The Windows 8 logo gives me a window, but I want to jump out of it.
Microsoft has a new logo for Windows 8 and I'm already missing the old ones. Maybe a world full of tiles can get tiresome.
The software giant has gone Metro happy. The new logo, unveiled in a Microsoft blog post, is designed to capture "bold flat colors and clean lines and shapes." That's mumbo jumbo for "hey we paid a design firm a bundle to cook up this logo that you may not like."
OK, I get that the logo should match the Windows 8 Metro format. Microsoft is tile happy. I also get that the previous Windows logos looked more like flags than Windows. Unfortunately for me the Windows 8 logo gives me a window, but I want to jump out of it.
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It. Is. Just. Too. Much. Metro. Design. For. Me. To. Handle.
The problem here is that I can't think of Microsoft's Metro theme without putting a "sexual" behind it. Metrosexuals are supposed to really care about their looks and hygiene. The Windows 8 logo looks forced and the equivalent of a pink shirt you might find your friendly neighborhood metrosexual wearing. Or as forced as a Ryan Seacrest-Steve Ballmer hug.
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RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Logo is fine.
I think Larry is going a bit overboard here
talk about taking silliness to teh extreme, he did. Though I'm sure we'll hear how "wonderfull" a plain Apple on a device is.
Larry, you're scraping the bottom here, anymore.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Corrected title: "Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro in a good way"
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
the logo is ugly and lewd! Like all homo loving monopolists in Washington state.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
You hear that? .....That is the sounds of more Windows PC's being bought.
And I happen to like Linux a lot...you're just killing people's enthusiasm for it instead of championing it.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Luckily the others of us here are rational, So I won't be assuming that all Linux fanbois are sex obsessed, homophobic and just generally nasty.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
/sarcasm.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Are you sure this isn't SJVN? Doesn't really sound like you Larry. Your parochialism is cute, but Metro usually means a train system in Australia and France rather than having a sexual connotation or an abbreviation for metropolis. Perhaps you should just change your acquaintances if metrosexual keeps popping up too often ;-)
As to the logo, it's Metro in one - simple, stylish and practical, just like Wp7 and then new Win 8.
I suggest you stop taking lessons from SJVN ;-)
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
Except that Metro can refer to a "look", which is what is happening here, opposed to being a noun, such as a train.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
I also have to get this off my chest.
I hate the ZD logo.
It's red which reminds me of Communism. The square is disturbingly off center and the worst part is the name, which makes anyone outside America call it Zed D net and in the USA Zee D net.
Aaah that makes me feel better ;-)
Ya, it might qualify as most bizarre article of all time.
I don't know about you, I'm just shocked at myself that I just took the time to read an article that sounds like its supposed to make sense if you don't like a software logo thats a real bad thing in some important way. I don't know, perhaps if you find the logo so disgusting and off putting you find it repels you some how from the products...
...I don't know, I think that would even be more maniacal then what even this article seems to be implying.
A Logo is supposed to represent something
Notice the angle of the logo
Represents the current state of windows competition.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
I think Loverock Davidson is waiting to start laughing when Win8 overtakes OSX and Linux marketshare combined.
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way
In what? 2-3 weeks? It won't take long...
RE: Microsoft's Windows 8 logo: Metro but not in a good way