As Microsoft claims in its latest blog post on TechNet, it has been 25 years since they last changed their logo, and it is about time.
Windows 8 is coming soon, and Office 2013 isn’t that far away either. Both products feature a brand new logo, and to go with that new look Microsoft is updating their own logo as well.
As the blog post points out, a major re-branding of a company takes time, and while this logo will slowly spread across Microsoft products and stores, it will take time.
Microsoft has produced a video to go with this change of logos:
Microsoft has also posted an image that shows the history of changes to their logo; it is embedded below:
