Windows

Description Logo for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Introduced in late 2006 as a replacement for a prior logo, available here.

Source Microsoft PressPass

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Portion used The entire work illustrated is covered by this rationale

Low resolution? Low Resolution of 288*76 pixels

Purpose of use The Microsoft Windows logo - used in the main article and in other articles about the software itself

Replaceable? Not replaceable.

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The image's inclusion here will not result in financial loss to the creator of the original drawing or Microsoft.
A logo is very safe territory
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Screenshot of Windows Vista Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft Windows (Build 6000).
Company/developer: Microsoft Corporation
OS family: MS-DOS/9x-based, Windows CE, Windows NT
Source model: Closed source
Stable release: Windows Vista
NT 6.0 (November 8, 2006) [+/-]
Preview release: Windows Server 2008
Release Candidate 0
NT 6.0.6001.16648 (September 2007) [+/-]

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[1] Microsoft Windows eventually came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced previously. At the 2004 IDC Directions conference, IDC Vice President Avneesh Saxena stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client operating system market.[2] The current client version of Windows is Windows Vista. The current server version of Windows is Windows Server 2003. The successor to Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 is currently being beta tested.