Windows Logos through the years

With the upcoming General Availability release of Microsoft Windows 8 on 26^th October 2012, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at how the Windows logos have changed through the years.

Back on 20^th November 1985, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows 1.0 which had the following logo with the 4 panes of a single colour:

 

 

When Windows 3.0 released in May 1990, the familiar red, green, blue and yellow colours were added to the panes of the window:

 

 

From that point on, the logos for Windows 95, XP, Vista and 7 have been progressions based on the four colours:

Now we have the new Windows 8 logo, which in some ways goes back to the single colour simplicity of the very first windows logo:

 

 

For other fun posts on product logos, have a look at:

• GP Logos through the years
   
• Microsoft Logo updated

 

Hope you found this interesting. 

David

PS: I had not seen the original Windows 1.0 logo before I researched this article. Thanks to Minimally Minimal to reminding us.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2012
  Interesting Blog about MS Windows logo and implementation through the years and preferred Minimally Minimal is also tremendous, thanks for making it shareable.

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2016
  time to update this article, there is a new logo. Again.

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2016
  Hi WendyThere is a new logo for Windows 10, but I can't update the blog after I left Microsoft in Oct 2014.David

• Anonymous
  July 29, 2016
  why did you skip windows 9?

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2016
    AnthonyBecause Seven Eight Nine...... (Say it aloud). :-)David