The logo is much simpler than the last several iterations. It keeps the four pane window design, but rather than waving like a flag as it has since Windows 3.1, the sides of the panes have been ...

the simple stylized Windows 1 logo, which represented on-screen windows rather than things with panes of glass, and the old "Windows compatible" black and white hole-in-the-wall window.

they have given the Windows logo its most significant redesign in 20 years. Ever since Windows 3.1, the slightly curved, red-green-blue-yellow panes have greeted millions on startup, or at least ...