(CBS) - Microsoft announced a redesign of the Windows logo today in preparation for the pending release of the Windows 8 operating system. "We realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

Microsoft has never been known for its design verve, especially compared to its rival Apple, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that its new logo for its feverishly anticipated Windows 8 operating system ...

Out with the old, in with the new -- logo, that is. As Redmond gets ready to unleash Windows 8 and a wave of other new products, it does a little design housekeeping. Jon Skillings is an editorial ...

Hoping to get some of that early Windows magic back, Microsoft has chosen a logo very similar to its very first Windows icon for its newest operating system. Unlike the waving rainbow window flags of ...

The Microsoft team has created a new logo for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, and the results aren’t pretty. You might say this is Microsoft’s Gap moment, that uncomfortable situation in ...

As of the time of this writing, you have 8 hours left to design a Windows 8 logo that you feel is better than the freshly-announced logo! Held on 99designs.com "for fun" by Archon Systems, Inc., lots ...

Announced on Microsoft’s The Windows Blog earlier today, the software company has officially announced the redesigned logo for Windows 8 after it was leaked on a Chinese site on Monday. While the ...

Microsoft revealed the new logo for Windows 8 several months ago, showing a highly stylized window in place of previous Windows logos that tended to look more like a waving flag. Today, the final ...