In particular, with the logos for Me and 2000, Microsoft added some extra square window elements around the flying flag for a fresher look.
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This new logo first appeared with Windows NT 3.5 in 1994, but soon made its way to Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 (1996), Windows CE (1996), Windows 98, Windows Me (2000), and Windows 2000 in various forms. In 1994, Microsoft designers put a new spin on the waving flag logo of the Windows 3.1 era by tilting it clockwise at a slight angle, suggesting movement and action. RELATED: Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here's How It Made Windows Essential The Flying Flag: 1994-2000 The flying flag logo used with Windows NT 3.5, 95, NT 4.0, CE, 98, Me, and 2000. Microsoft also used this flag logo with Windows NT 3.1 (the first-ever release of NT) the following year. I wanted to build some equity in the logo and it worked!” It established the colors, the overall design, has motion/dynamism, and it lasted decades. They used some outside designers, presented the finalists to me, and I chose the now-iconic Windows flag. I directed the systems marketing group to develop a new one. Four colors (red, green, blue, and yellow) fill the panes of this flag-window, while the waving trail breaks into discrete blocks, possibly suggesting discrete digital units of information.įormer Microsoft VP Brad Silverberg related the origins of the famous flag logo to How-To Geek: “I felt was a huge missed opportunity, and that we needed to create a new logo and mandate it be used everywhere.
Windows 3.1 freshened things up for Microsoft in 1992 by introducing a vibrant new logo that borrowed the windowpane motif but turned it into a waving flag with a trail behind it. RELATED: Windows 3.0 Is 30 Years Old: Here's What Made It Special The Windows Flag: 1990-1993 Logos used with Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1. It’s a design motif that has stuck with Windows in various forms to this day. Some Windows application retail boxes also used an early illustration of a window with heavy gradients on some products to denote compatibility with Windows 3.0 (seen above on the left.) This is the first appearance of what is clearly a metaphor for a house window, with four panes set in a thick border. Sometimes one was reused, but there was no standard.” “Each marketing group, sales group, or sales event did their own.
“With Windows 3.0, there wasn’t a standard Windows logo,” says Brad Silverberg, the Microsoft VP in charge of Windows at the time. Like Windows 1.x and 2.x, Windows 3.0 (1990) mostly used a word-based logo-as seen above on the Windows 3.0 splash screen to the right. The Stark Window: 1990-1991 Logos used in the Windows 3.0 era. But it still set the stage for things to come. After searching, we’ve only found it used in conjunction with a Microsoft Windows Development Seminar event hosted in 19-and a rare boxed copy of Windows distributed at the event.
In a blog post from 2012, Sam Moreau of Microsoft cited this design as “the original Windows logo,” but in practice, it was rarely used at the time.