One of the most recognized logos in the modern world and certainly the most recognized logo in the tech industry has recently undergone a pretty major over haul. It is the Microsoft Windows logo. In a huge marketing campaign, Microsoft has re-branded many of its products to a newer, flatter logo that matches the style of the new Windows 8 operating System.

The same basic elements of the old logo still exist and have almost always included the red, green, blue, and yellow shapes that abstractly represent a real window (this is known as skeumorphism in design terms). Much like its biggest competitor, Apple, the two companies have always taken a more literal approach with their logos and have chosen to represent their brands with real objects rather than an abstract concept which has become more popular today in the tech industry. More

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Microsoft Windows Logo — Microsoft Windows is the name of a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft since 1981, when the project was called “Interface Manager” .

Announced in 1983 , first marketed Microsoft operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an adjunct to MS-DOS in response to growing market interest in a graphical user interface (GUI) that was introduced by other operating systems like Mac OS and other companies like Xerox. 1 At that time, Microsoft got a lease for your operating system with the computer giant, IBM , so that was preinstalled at the factory in most personal computers in the world, which made him the most used and popular. In October 2009, Windows had approximately 91% of the market share of operating systems on client computers that access the Internet. The most recent versions of Windows are Windows 7 for desktop computers , Windows Server 2008 R2 for servers and Windows Phone 7 for mobile devices . More

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