A review of the history of Windows through its logos: this is how they have changed over the years

We are very close to seeing how Windows 10 October 2018 Update hits the market. This is the umpteenth version of Windows of which we already know almost all its features and news. Improvements that have caused us to look back to contemplate how Windows has evolved since its inception

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But in this review we are not going to talk about dates, about improvements that have come with each version, but about an iconic aspect that seems to remain unchangeduntil we look to see how it has changed.We are talking about the Windows logo and its evolution over the years in the different versions."

The look of Windows logos has grown with us It has evolved to keep up with the times and reflect trends of design that have been imposed. Let's see how they have evolved by abusing a bit of nostalgia.

As we have changed

And we start with November 20, 1985, when Microsoft released Microsoft Windows 1.0. The grandfather of everything we have now in our hands. And it came with a logo that showed all 4 panels but all in one color. Similar to what we see today.

Windows 3.0 and its revisions came after May 1990 and the logo changes completely. The same color for the four windows of the logo is replaced by the colors red, green, blue and yellow that were common from then on. It was also completed with a curved window that offered a kind of gradient in the left area.

Windows 95 did not change the aesthetics introduced. The window became tilted and the colors red, green, blue and yellow were now more vivid. Few other changes except the typography, now with a mixture of normal and bold letters.

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We later find ourselves with a version of what for many is the best Windows in history.In Windows XP we saw the lateral gradient of the window disappear, how the black borders disappeared and the brightness came to the logo. In addition, the color reached the typography to highlight the name, XP."

Windows Vista arrived later, in 2006, a cursed version for many (I liked it). The Aero interface that gave so much headache was even denoted by the logo, now embedded in more brightness and perhaps more burdensome than the one offered with Windows XP.

After that misstep came Windows 7 in 2009, whose logo tryed to return to the origins of Windows XP A simple image, without borders, less loaded and with brighter and clearer colors. With Windows 7 we last saw the colors red, green, blue and yellow.

This is how we arrived at Windows 8, a logo that lost its chromatic variety in what seemed to be a return to the first image of Windows represented by the simplicity of a single color, again in blue. In addition, the window lost its curves and now appeared in perspective with very marked straight lines.

Finally, it's time to talk about Windows 10 in its different versions. An image of Windows according to the times, evolution of the restart in design that came with Windows 8 Now the letters and the window arrive in white on a blue background, with the same straight lines and clear letters.