History Behind the Logos of Top Companies

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 23:46 IST   |    2 Comments
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4. Microsoft
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The Microsoft story began in 1975, when Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen coded the first computer language for a PC and named it BASIC. Soon they named their partnership as Micro-Soft which explains the first logo of the company. They changed the logo in that year itself and dropped the hyphen too. For the next 12 years, the logo had a distinctive O. A new logo came on in 1987.The new logo designed by Scott Baker, came to be known as 'the Pacman logo' because of the distinctive cut in the O. In 1994, they integrated their tagline 'Where do you want to go today?' within the logo. The new 2008 logo has all the text in Italics but the look of the logo has remained pretty much the same.