As we saw the wavy “flag” of Windows past replaced with something more flat, Microsoft has changed its own company logo. The new logo looks to use the same Segoe font, and the old Windows logo has been flattened out.
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All is not well at Microsoft. Windows boss Steve Sinofsky who has just presided over Microsoft’s launch of Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Microsoft’s new tablet Surface has left Microsoft after 23 years of service to the company.
His departure takes place with immediate effect and has been replaced by Julie Larson-Green, who previously headed-up Windows’ lucrative business side.
The last decade has been a bad one for Microsoft and its Windows business. Windo
Windows 8 screenshot
Pressured by that trend, Microsoft is updating Windows to make PCs work more like smartphones and to bring Windows to a whole new class of devices: iPad-like touch-screen tablets. Last month, the company launched what it calls a “consumer preview” of Windows 8, the next version of its flagship operating system. The preview is not a final version – that isn’t expected until at least this fall – but it’s close.
I’ve been playing around with the Windows 8 preview for several weeks. I loaded it onto a several-year old Dell laptop, in part because that’s what I had available and in part to see what users of traditional PCs can expect from the new software.