The new Windows logo is out of perspective. Here's how it should look.

I like microsoft's version better. The square one looks stubby and a little awkward.<p>I would say that perfectly square windows are just as rare as windows that are wider than they are tall. This is silly.

The square perspective design just looks out of proportions. Purely on an first impression basis, given a choice to choose between the two, I would choose the one by the MS team. Maybe they tested , and found that people liked the rectangle one better. Again, why is this nit pick important anyway?

A much better take on the lack of perspective in the Windows logo: <a href="http://imjustcreative.com/windows-8-logo-design/2012/02/18/" rel="nofollow">http://imjustcreative.com/windows-8-logo-design/2012/02/18/</a>

Why is this useless, pedantic piece of fluff in the front page?

I can not understand why, in Microsoft's blog post, they posted a Quality 20% JPEG of their new logo (<a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-59-23-metablogapi/6201.Win8Logo_5F00_01_5F00_thumb_5F00_23669D8A.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://windowsteamblog.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/Com...</a>). It's compressed so much that there's a slight green hue around the blue borders.

Or perhaps it was intentional. Most people don't have square monitors...

Maybe Microsof prefers the modernist horizontal "square": you could put hundreds of those slightly stretched windows side to side to form a horizontal band of windows throughout the whole floor of a building. That is probably the way Microsoft wants to vision Windows' style of adoption.

Microsoft's logo makes sense. The logo matches with the windows (see the screenshot). It completes the pattern. <a href="http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/windows_8_ui_01.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/windows_...</a>

i guess microsoft has enough money to buy the best designers around. maybe they have an idea or two about perspective and also a couple of ideas about when to break those rules in exchange to something that simply looks better, and this is the case.

<a href="http://habrastorage.org/storage2/e50/481/34a/e5048134a61b496e5019386fba18e4ee.png" rel="nofollow">http://habrastorage.org/storage2/e50/481/34a/e5048134a61b496...</a>

So, MS don't know shit because windows are square.