


The logo was commissioned by Brad Silverberg, a Senior VP at Microsoft. Cowles, art director at Microsoft from 1991 to 1994, cites himself as designer of the original Windows flag, under the supervision of Boettcher and Julie Wong.

On Twitter, Microsoft cites Jeff Boettcher as the designer of the original Windows flag. Support for the Windows 3.1x line of operating systems ended on December 31, 2001, except for WFW 3.11 embedded, in which support ended on November 1, 2008. This logo also would have a trail behind it. The rest of the 3.1x series included Windows 3.11, Windows 3.2 and Windows for Workgroups, where slight changes were made to the colors of the logo. The iconic four colored, flag-like Windows logo was introduced with Windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 was an updated version of Windows 3.0, with several enhancements to the still DOS-based platform, including improved system stability, expanded support for multimedia, Truetype fonts, and workgroup networking.
