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.

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 ...