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October 1st, 2012, 09:45 GMT · By

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Mystery Solved: the Meaning of Each Color Included in Microsoft’s New Logo

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As you probably know by now, Microsoft went through a serious rebranding process in preparation for the Windows 8 launch, so the company recently received a brand new logo.

The logo features four different colors that remind us of the old-fashioned Windows operating system, but the meaning of each of these actually concerns the other products of the company.

Seth Eliot, a Microsoft employee, revealed that blue comes from Windows, Windows Live, Server, SQL Server, Azure, Outlook.com and Internet Explorer, while red is being used for Office. Green represents Xbox and Xbox Live, while yellow “is still a mystery.” It probably stands for Bing, the company’s search engine though.

There are however several important Microsoft products that aren’t included in the logo, such as Skype, Windows Phone, Dynamics and Visual Studio, so don’t be too surprised if some of these will get a new logo anytime soon.

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Comment #1 by: thumperest on 01 Oct 2012, 11:20 UTC reply to this comment

I'm colourblind...


Comment #2 by: cxg on 28 Nov 2012, 18:31 UTC reply to this comment

But the Windows logo has been those four colors since Windows 95.. o__o;


Comment #3 by: Spy_Spirit on 25 Apr 2013, 14:41 UTC reply to this comment

What about the 4 elements?
Makes more sense to me since they use this set of colors since 3.1....as CXG suggested...
Blue=water
Red=Fire
Green= not sure but could be like grass...(not one of the 4 elements)
Yellow: earth or dirt..

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