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Microsoft unveiled a new look for the Windows logo for Windows 8. There seems to be a dramatic rise in branding and style experts online, and some significant backlash around the Internet, but all of ...

As expected, Microsoft today released an alpha version of the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit for download. Companies can use the toolkit to verify an application's compliance against the requirements ...

In a blog post today, Microsoft introduced a brand new logo for Windows. For Microsoft there's a lot riding on its highly anticipated Windows 8 operating system. But that's a story for another day.

Microsoft celebrates 50th anniversary with 8 themed wallpapers in light and dark modes. Choose from one of four themes: Microsoft Mahjong, Cascading Solitaire, Yellow tulips, and Windows logo.

In advance of the release of Windows 8, Microsoft has been showing us bits and pieces of its newly redesigned UI. Now, we’re getting our first look at the newly redesigned logo, the latest in a ...

There’s nothing to suggest this is the true and final Windows 7 logo, or even that the OS will have such a logo. But it is an official Microsoft graphic, and it’s going in a different direction from ...

Now that Windows Vista has gone RTM, it might be a good time to take a brief tour of the different Windows Vista logos that you'll be seeing on PCs and hardware. After all, if you're in the market for ...

A sampling of the new Microsoft 365 icons. Jon Friedman/Microsoft Even Windows isn’t exempt from a bit of rebranding. Microsoft revealed a new logo and 100 newly redesigned icons for its flagship ...

In brief: If there's one thing you can say about Microsoft's products, it's that they never stay the same for long, for better or worse. While that fact often presents itself in the form of sweeping ...