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3 years ago

in New IE7 Logo — Elliott C. Back on Elliott Back's Blog
Given the publication of Scott Granneman's book Don't Click on the Blue E, I wondered whether Microsoft planned to just ditch the negative goodwill that the logo has built. But this logo looks just like the IE 6 logo except the blue is a bit darker and the ring around it is orange and more distinct. It's not nearly as radical as the change from the Windows 3.x through 2000 logo to the Windows XP logo.

But Microsoft might have decided to toss out goodwill in another area: I also noticed a name change from "Microsoft Internet Explorer" to "Windows Internet Explorer". I guess Microsoft wants to toss out the roughly 2,170,000 Google results and 2,574,000 MSN Search results for msie. Sometimes you just have to ask yourself wie?, er, why? And what happens when the IE team decides to take on Safari? Do we get Windows Internet Explorer for Mac OS X the way we have the similarly oxymoronic Windows Media Player for Mac OS X?
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