--- description: The long-awaited middle finger emoji will be included in Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system. title: We're Finally Getting a Middle Finger Emoji image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62c0576367b43bb0/6987ee388e0601601045e736/oklpvz4nz1oq_small.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # We're Finally Getting a Middle Finger Emoji  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 4, 2015 3:39 PM CUT  Middle Finger Emoji Middle Finger EmojiMicrosoft  by [Alex Fitzpatrick](/author/alex-fitzpatrick/)  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 4, 2015 3:39 PM CUT The long-awaited middle finger emoji will be included in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, [according](http://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-emoji-changelog "undefined") to Emojipedia. The emoji is officially called “Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended.” The one-finger salute emoji has been available for tech companies to pack in their products for almost a year — emoji are an industry standard set by a non-profit group; individual tech companies like Apple and Google are free to adopt and interpret the group’s selections largely as they see fit. No major tech companies have yet adopted Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended. Windows 10, Microsoft’s upcoming cross-platform operating system, is due out sometime this summer. It replaces Windows 8.1 — Microsoft skipped a number for undetermined reasons. **Read next:** [Microsoft’s Next Version of Windows Will Be a Free Upgrade](http://time.com/3676899/microsoft-windows-10-free/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/"},"headline":"We're Finally Getting a Middle Finger Emoji","datePublished":"2015-05-04T15:39:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:00.603Z","description":"It's coming to Windows","url":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/","keywords":["Tech","Microsoft","emoji","Web","windows 10"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62c0576367b43bb0/6987ee388e0601601045e736/oklpvz4nz1oq_small.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Fitzpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt62c0576367b43bb0/6987ee388e0601601045e736/oklpvz4nz1oq_small.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Middle Finger Emoji","caption":"Middle Finger Emoji","creditText":"Microsoft","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/","name":"We're Finally Getting a Middle Finger Emoji"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Microsoft Hololens Developers Imagine the Future of Holographic Computing","description":"Microsoft Hololens Developers Imagine the Future of Holographic Computing","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/gZo1uRkR/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-30T10:59:17.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gZo1uRkR.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3845475/middle-finger-emoji/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```