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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Windows 8 logo stems directly from the Windows Metro design philosophy, with the UI’s tiles reinterpreted as panes of a window drawn in perspective. The four-color flag is dead, as it would ...