I like it better than the new one. If they got rid of the rounded corners and added the new type, it would be a pretty good one.

It would also give Microsoft employees something I think they need - a bridge to their former greatness. Microsoft was a very interesting company back then and they may need to be reminded they can still be that company.

Yeah, I don't love the type, but when I saw that, I was like, hire THAT guy again.

I like it too.

Here's a nice SVG version that's a lot clearer than the one in the article:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Windows_1.0_lo...

looks like a SIM card to me :>

i agree. i've never seen that one before. in fact, they should take the font-style from the new logo and add the old window icon from 1.0, maybe adjust the blue in "windows" in the new logo to match 1.0 as well..

Something interesting to me is how the Windows 1 logo looks like the old ethernet 10base2 icon. A bit ahead of its time, in that sense --I don't think windows 1 was networkable.

Interestingly that logo accurately represents the way "Windows" worked in Windows 1.0. It didn't have overlapping windows. So the lines within the windows represent the dividers of the UI between the window areas. You could make one window bigger by moving a divider over, making all the windows on the other side of that divider smaller. There was no concept of windows being in front of or behind each other (like there was on the mac from the beginning. Microsoft obviously started on windows late compared to the mac, and was quite behind at the 1.0 release.)

You speak about tiling window managers as if they were already an anachronism in 1985. Yet today, some of us continue to prefer them, and they remain in active development. What good is a window that's partially covered? I either want to completely see it or I want it to be completely hidden from view. The parlor trick of overlapping windows is useless to me.

I constantly use overlapping windows.

If I'm tailing a continuous log, I don't need to see the full text of each line, I just need to see when the pattern changes, which I can get by having the first 10 characters peeking out from behind the left of my active window.

My to-do list is big but really the first three words or so are enough to remind me of what each item is; it's behind and to the left of the tailing log.

Finally, I have a few corners of various other apps I'm using poking out all over the place. It's much easier to switch to the window I want by grabbing a corner than alt-tabbing or any other method.

Fair enough. It's important to have different paradigms for different work styles. You use whatever works best for you. My point was just that tiling WMs were not anachronistic back in '85.

Part of me hopes Windows will rediscover tiling, considering their new-found love for tiles.

In the unlikely event they execute on that I might actually be tempted to try windows again - for the first time in 10 years.

Will this be how Metro works?

Interestingly, it seems that MS will revive the "divider" concept in the Metro UI for Windows 8. Slide the divider to the left, and the left-side app gets narrower. You can even do this with a Metro app on one side of the divider and the entire traditional desktop on the other side.