I am surprised that his concept totally sucks. Both the font work and the logo. They are so utterly bad, that even I, being just an amateur designer, clearly see how it is bad and where it is bad, and even I could probably make something much better. Apparently, this is the reason why he was hired, as Microsoft is firmly set on the course of sucking.
(By the way, a note for the straightforward thinking folks: the fact that this particular design sucks does not mean the guy is not talented or promising, especially given his young age.)
It's sad that you wrote this comment less than a day after writing this:
"When I was a Junior Developer I though I was a genius and knew everything about programming itself, I was not even interested in improving my coding skills, because I thought they were perfect"
Yes, so what? When I was a Junior Developer and knew almost nothing, even back then I could determine that some code is bad because it was unstructured, with bad naming, poor algorithms, etc., because the code was bad objectively, given metrics that do not depend on someone's particular opinion or mentality. I would call the very same code bad today, with all the experience and knowledge.
I don't think I'm a genius, I just think there's a lot of talentless and stupid folks everywhere. And I adore smart talented people, they are such a relief for me, but unfortunately there are not so many of them.
A distinctive work is just a consequence of intellectual superiority.
My problem is that I am very lazy. The actual work someone can make is F * S, where the F is your intellectual power, and the S is how much you have moved towards your target. If the S is close to zero, being a genius does not help. Actually, being a lazy genius does help being at some decent level even without putting too much effort, e.g. when you have the same or better level of expertise as your average colleague, even though you have invested an order of magnitude less time in studying than them, and don't even have a college degree becaming a boss of those who do.
You haven't really told us why it is so bad. I'm curious why you don't like it?
In a team, the design would be pushed and polished by a number of other team members. This was a one man job, on a team he'd collaborate and come up with more awesome designs. He'd get feedback, where in this case he only got people sniping from the sidelines... people like yourself.
I did not say the guy sucked, I said his design sucked, and it does indeed. And Microsoft's recent approach to design sucks as well, the new Windows logo is a 90 degrees rotated trash can. That was my personal opinion, I just write what I see and how I feel, I wouldn't downvote the folks who greeted the design, because it's their opinion (probably based on the lack of taste, but that's their own business).
All of that weren't personal offenses to anyone, but your comment was.
I can say 'Dude, your design sucks' to my best friend, and it doesn't concern my respect to them in any way. Even geniuses sometimes make crap, especially when they learn. What's so special about this? Are you a bunch of fanatics here to go beat and burn anyone who's got opinion different from yours?
(By the way, a note for the straightforward thinking folks: the fact that this particular design sucks does not mean the guy is not talented or promising, especially given his young age.)