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Coming Soon: The Middle Finger Emoji

By John Dodge

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Sometime in July, PC users will be able to do something not so PC.

Flip the bird, offer up the one finger salute, give em the middle finger.

In the form of an emoji.

According to the Emojipedia blog, the newest Microsoft operating system, Windows 10, will support the middle finger emoji.

It will also be available in a variety of skin tones.

Emoji Middle Finger

"The middle finger emoji was approved as part of Unicode 7 in mid-2014, yet has curiously remained absent from iOS, OS X, Android, and Windows. Until now," according to the Emojipedia blog post.

Windows 10 is expected to be released sometime in July. In the world of emojis, it contains the biggest emoji upgrade in about 18 months.

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