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comment by mk
mk  ·  4538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft is worth around $258 billion and all they can come up with is this?
Thanks for the geometrydaily link. It feels like a distilled http://iso50.com.

However to be honest I have mixed feelings about this neo-retro-minimalism. Too much of it seems based in nostalgia, and not enough in today, or even tomorrow.

The MS logo fails IMO because it holds back in the wrong way to be interesting. It's a case of less is less. But, in the same sense, this retro-minimalism only succeeds insofar as it accomplishes something well-recognized. I think MS was inspired by something good, but not interesting, and deviating slightly from that couldn't bring much of anything.