Srsly wtf I saw that and immediately thought “Well that would be a great modern logo” its flat and sleek but still recognizable enough. Guess the marketing department didn’t want to admit “we got it right the first time”
Yeah somehow that got worse over time. I remember one version actually let you select multiple windows in the taskbar and choose to horizontally or vertically tile, and if you knew the magic sequence, you could do it for just two not all.
I wanted to use the current Windows logo, but it’s so incredibly stupid, you wouldn’t even recognize it.
This is what happens when a $100 bn profit/year company is too cheap to hire artists:
It’s just the blue screen of death now. Apt.
TIL windows 1 logo was the best logo
Srsly wtf I saw that and immediately thought “Well that would be a great modern logo” its flat and sleek but still recognizable enough. Guess the marketing department didn’t want to admit “we got it right the first time”
Even seems to suggest use of a tiling window manager that MS still hasn’t properly implemented.
Yeah somehow that got worse over time. I remember one version actually let you select multiple windows in the taskbar and choose to horizontally or vertically tile, and if you knew the magic sequence, you could do it for just two not all.
It does kinda look like a cafeteria tray, though.
Lunch? Even better!
There’s also this gem that was used infrequently around 3.0 era. I call it Windows Noir.
Yeah that logo is better than the modern logos by far
I like 7 best
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s12Ironically it’s because they paid very expensive artists.
The windows 8 logo was done by Paula Scher of Pentagram, one of the most exclusive and expensive graphic design firms.
Windows - https://www.pentagram.com/work/windows/story
That was a pretty interesting read. I definitely do think there’s more artistic merit to the windows 8 logo than 11.
You think they didn’t pay marketing consultants millions for that logo?