Microsoft logo real meaning
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Red green and blue make sense but not yellow
Maybe v box a portable xbox?
Hint to the future of xbox
I hate to mention this, but Microsoft used this colour scheme since Windows 3.1, when Xbox or Bing weren’t even a twinkle in Bill Gates’ eye. Here’s a better theory - they’re sticking to a historical colour scheme because the logo has decades of brand recognition behind it and there’s no reason to change it drastically.
We really don’t - they told us what the repurposed colours are for when they launched the new logo, it’s in the announcement clip. You’re partially correct, what I was saying was that the colours were picked for individual products for historical reasons, not the reverse. They had four to work with, and assigned them to individual products before composing them into an overarching whole.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2012/08/23/microsoft-unveils-a-new-look/
The colours themselves, and their arrangement, are a callback to the classic Windows flag logo, they maintain that colour scheme today as the logo for the entire company, they simply assigned individual products to each colour.
The old Bing app icon was a very similar orangy-yellow. You can probably find a snapshot on archive.org
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the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze -
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There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
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But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
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