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.
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