Apple introduced their new Mac OS X Universal Logo Program to signify that applications that are both Intel-native and PowerPC-native.
The Mac OS X and the Mac OS X Universal logos are displayed on the left.
The Mac OS X Universal logo can be used only by authorized licensees who have signed the Mac OS X Universal logo license agreement.
Apple’s Mac OS X Universal logo license agreement (PDF), Mac OS X Universal logo usage guidelines (PDF) and official Mac OS X Universal logo artwork can be found here.
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Not to be outdone, Microsoft has created a “Universal Windows” logo. It is a steaming pile of poo. If you see this logo, you know that it will run on Windows, and it will run like shit.
Now, now, Jimbo. Play nice with the Windows sufferers, er, ah, users. Yeah, that’s it, I meant “users”.
I love that you had the discretion to write poo in the first line but felt free to write shit on the second.
That was funny as hell, by the way.
It’s the Yin/Yang logo turned sideways and the dots taken out and the color changed. *sigh*
Wow, very observant. I didn’t notice.
Ya know – I just don’t like the MAC logo. I just don’t. I think it should have been changed when the conversion took place from OS9 to OSX.
It actually looks like it should have stayed in the 80s. The one smiley face, 2 faces, one adult, one kid…. just end it all and come up with a sweet logo for today’s Mac…
Okay, done venting, have to breathe now…
Apple’s been showing this logo. Is this new/news? I like it, btw. It portrays a fluid change, not a war of good and evil that the pure yinyang is.
“Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, **** happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.”
It’s almost like “Plays for Sure”…
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yes, giofoto, we all see that. Now what was your point?
to use the logo? Or do you just sign an agreement?
Of COURSE it’s Yin and Yang. It’s SUPPOSED to be!
Two binaries combined into a whole. It’s called a “metaphor.” And a visually effective one.
Ya, giofoto, thanks. I had never even heard of the Yin Yang before you brought it up. Who owns the rights to the trademark? Is it some rap group?
“Play nice with the Windows sufferers, er, ah, users. Yeah, that’s it, I meant ‘users’.”
You’ve heard the joke right? There are only 2 industries that call their customers “users” — technology companies and drug dealers
I wonder if Universal Pictuers has a problem with this logo?
I’ve heard that Steve is a Buddhist, so the notion of making the Mac one with the universe probably gives him a chuckle.
Steveo a Buddhist? Gates an agnostic, Stevo a Buddhist, Ballmer a fat, hairy primate? What gives? I guess carbon-based Christian homo sapiens just ain’t meant to get rich. Buddhist liberal democrat? Yikes! Still gotta love him!
Anyhow, will it be universal binary forever for Intel-based Macs only or will there eventually be Intel-only binary. I suppose in a couple years as power pc becomes less supported and a smaller fraction of the installed base.
You know, that has been on the Apple website for over a week.
McDonald’s calls people who eat their food “users”, but I guess they fit into drug dealers.
What kind of “users” exactly are Windows users? Seems to me they’re more like drug-users, tied to something obviously harmful, yet powerless to stop themselves. If that’s the case, I think they’ve just been used.
imaki,
my guess is that itll be for a long time before they ever stop to encourage universal binaries. you never know , if IBM come out with a killer patented technology in a few years or a few months even (its posssible), that could blow intel out of the water in performance. this way, we wont be left behind again, well just switch over to ibm chips again and no problem, the os and the apps will just run.
It’s the shoulder patch of the 29th Division, a Maryland Virginia National Guard division ( hence the Blue and Gray) with an illustrious combat record. It landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and suffered great losses.