These four colors respectively represent Microsoft’s four iconic product series: Office (office software: red), XBOX (home video game console: green), Windows (window system: blue) and Bing (search engine: yellow).

Microsoft’s fifth-generation LOGO

Microsoft’s corporate LOGO has gone through five versions so far. The latest version we see now is the flat four-color one below. "Tian Zi Ge" icon + Microsoft's full English name Microsoft. This generation of Microsoft LOGO was born in 2012. The "Tian" icon on the left includes square blocks in four colors: red, green, blue, and yellow. The text uses the Segoe font. The overall look and feel is simple and bright, in line with today's Windows 10, Windows 11, etc. The product UI style is unified, so it has not been changed to this day.

From a pure text shape to a four-color Tian word mark

In fact, in Microsoft’s first four LOGO designs, no graphic LOGO was included, and even the colors were specifically specified for Zeng. , but directly use Microsoft’s different text styles as the design subject. Among them, the fourth generation in 1987 is most familiar to old netizens.

The meaning of the four colors

After adding the four-color icon to the fifth-generation LOGO, Microsoft has not elaborated on the meaning of the colors in official documents. A popular view at present is that these four colors correspond to Microsoft's four major products, namely Office (office software: red), XBOX (home video game console: green), Windows (window system: blue) color) and Bing (search engine: yellow).

Judging from the current LOGOs of the above four major products, their colors are pure red, pure green, pure blue and pure yellow, which echo the four colors of the Microsoft corporate LOGO. The five icons are placed on the Together, the style is very unified, so I personally think it is more pertinent to say that this color corresponds one-to-one with the iconic product.