It looks like Apple hated Microsoft’s new Windows logo so much that it got redesigned for an iCloud support page.
Apple updated its article on how to get help using iCloud Calendar recently and added a custom Windows logo that looks like a literal window with a little windowsill underneath. It’s more like clip art than something master designer Jony Ive would approve of, which makes it kind of mysterious why it’s there when the official logo would suffice.
Here’s the official logo for comparison:
Apple and Microsoft’s relationship has warmed recently, with Apple even inviting executives from Microsoft onstage for its recent iPhone 6s event.
“Apple and Microsoft still compete, but we can partner on more things than we compete on,” Tim Cook said in an interview last week. “That’s what customers want. [Apple users] love Office, and they want it to work on Mac better than it works on Windows, and it should.”
Cook also said he doesn’t want to hold grudges against companies, but Apple is launching the iPad Pro to take on the Surface Pro later this year, so it looks like peace between the two companies is still light-years away.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
13 responses to “Check out the new Microsoft Windows logo designed by Apple”
Apple trolling detected.
It’s highly likely that they didn’t have the rights to use MS’s Windows logo on their support site. Either that or they are in process for getting those rights.
That sounds highly unlikely to me.
It’s not so different to them using that ridiculous Blue-Screen-Of-Death in the icon
I rather doubt Microsoft trademarked the Blue Screen of Death. But they should’ve.
hahahahahaha. GOOD one Apple! Hahahahaha
Because using a apple clipart for a logo is soooo cool.
Some curtains and a flowerpot would’ve been nice.
Hahahaha, I agree!
I love my Apple products but the official Windows logo trumps that garbage Apple made.
Logos have copyrights folks (which means “the right to copy”). In order to use ANY company’s logo, you must have permission from that company to use it, otherwise it’s illegal and can get you sued for unapproved usage. Any use of a logo that might lead to confusion in the minds of the viewer (such as people thinking this is an official Windows/Microsoft site) would not be permitted. Negotiations on copyrighted logos can get very ticklish and take time to work out. There’s no skulduggery or strangeness in what Apple is doing. They simply can’t use the trademarked and copyrighted Windows logo without Microsoft’s express permission.
Buster: Your logic completely escapes me that Apple making the iPad Pro is any kind of barrier to peace between the 2 companies. Windows users go for Windows products. Mac/Apple users go for Mac/Apple products. If Apple dropped the iPad Pro, it would not in any way guarantee or promote peace between the companies. Should Apple cancel the iPod so that the Zune can be relaunched? Ridiculous!
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To use the actual Windoze logo would be to advertise Windoze. I like Apple’s uninspiring interpretation of the stark reality that is Mi¢ro$oft.