Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.

In Aug 2012, Microsoft unveiled its updated logo (shown above) which is essenially a simplified version of the Windows logo. The Windows logo had the four colors, Blue, Orange, Green and Yellow in the form of a wave. However with the Microsoft logo, they are simple square blocks. In addition, the Microsoft font is no longer italicized but a simpler lighter type font.  The font is the Segoe font, which is a font that Microsoft had created and uses in its products and marketing materials for many years. The font apparently figures prominently in the new Windows 8 interface as well. The one element that they have retained from the previous logo is the connection between the letters 'f' and 't'.

Overall, since we have seen the Windows logo for so many years, its hardly a noticable change and perhaps some readers may even wonder, "Isn't that how the logo was in the first place?". The company is at an important point in their history with the launch of Windows 8. Hopefully the product is a much bigger success than this logo.

The 2012 London Olympics are being watched live by millions of viewers around the world but we in America are in a unique situation where NBC is showing most of the events on tape delay. While most Americans are unhappy with this situation are are tweeting with the hashtag #NBCFail, I would like to send a few Thank you notes to the wonderful staff at NBC.

• Thank you for giving me the gift of time - With news updates, tweets, Facebook posts likely to update me of scores and results, I am able to get the valuable gift of time that I would have otherwise spent on these social applications. I wait until prime time and started tweeting about how great Phelps is doing. Most of my followers have left me because they think I am stupid.
• Thank you for introducing me to new sports - While the rest of the planet was watching the men's 100m finals, we in America were lucky to be watching Show Jumping.
• Thank you for teaching me how to control my anger - First you show the games on tape delay, then you show an ad telling us that the winner will on be on the Today show the next day before you show the results. Great programming. 

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, and also known as London 2012 are scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Olympic games are a major international event in which thousands of athletes from around the globe participate in various sporting events. These include sports  such as swimming, track and field, football, basketball and numerous other events. The summer Olympic games are one of the most watched television events and cities around the world compete fiercely to host an Olympic event.

The logo for the 2012 London games is relatively simple and comprises of the numbers 2 0 1 2 organized in blocks that look like puzzle pieces. The 0 contains the five Olympics rings. The city where the games are being held, London, is in the upper  2. The logo comes in four standard colors are green, magenta, orange and blue; however, the logo has incorporated a variety of colors, including the Union Flag to promote the handover ceremony

The logo was designed by Wolff Olins and unveiled on 4 June 2007 at a cost £400,000. This will also be the first time that the same essential logo is to be used for both the Olympic and Paralympic games.