Microsoft reveals new logo after 25 years

Let’s admit it, Microsoft is gearing up for one hell of a year. The company has adopted a new design language, formerly known as Metro, through out its entire product line up. It is only apt that now this very design language is trickling down to the company’s official logo. This change comes 25 years after Microsoft had unveiled it previous logo. The new logo integrates a multi-color Windows logo as well, that also highlights the fact that Windows is the flagship product for Microsoft.
Talking to the Seattle Times Microsoft’s Jeff Hansen said “The new logo, which incorporates a multicolored Windows symbol in addition to the “Microsoft” name in straightforward, lighter type, is intended to “signal the heritage but also signal the future — a newness and freshness.”
Interestingly, while the new logo integrates a Windows like logo, it is multicolored, unlike the new Windows logo that is now just blue. The logo in fact borrows from the color codes of various products from Microsoft’s product line, like blue for Windows, Red for Office and Green for Xbox.
The letters ‘f’ and ‘t’ are integrated in the logo as one and Microsoft has used the Segue font, a font owned by the company.
Clearly this is the biggest year in the history of Microsoft and we are seeing an unprecedented level of integration in its entire product line. All products including Windows, Windows Phone, Office, Outlook.com, Skydrive, Xbox and Windows Azure are in for a revamp and the adoption of the new ‘Metro’ like logo is seem like the final culmination of this integration.