It’s official: Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 8 logo redesign rumor is true (and that those renderings were pretty spot-on.) At long last — since Windows 3.1 — we may now rest assured that the logo is indeed of windows, and not a flag. This is the point that was raised by the designer who worked on the logo, Paula Scher, to sell Microsoft on the school of thought behind her mockups that aims to bring the Windows logo back to its roots: “…your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?”

The flood of negative criticism has already begun to fill my timeline. But, it appears that the Windows logo is already facing left and turning a blind eye to the haters. Good for it.