Microsoft has revealed a redesigned logo for Windows 8 in a recent post on the company's official Windows team blog. Redmond's new operating system logo borrows heavily from the original Windows ...

Dmitri Zagidulin, a distributed systems engineer, sums up the change: “Go to a tech conference or developer event. Look around you… and just count the number of glowy Apple logos on those laptops.

The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system logo is seen on a computer monitor, Jan. 26, 2007, at a Best Buy store in New York. Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images hide caption ...

China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S. technology.