30 years of Windows package design

[sinu]

As the world's most used operating system - and being from Microsoft - Windows has had some rather dull boxes designed for it to sit within. But it's also had some great packaging designed for it too, so we've gathered together images of the box art from each version of Windows, from 1985's Windows 1.0 to last month's Windows 10. Enjoy...

30 years of Windows package design

 

[Ink]

Windows 8 is by far the most colourful.

 

[breathejustice]

I do not like the flat icon and windows frame.
I hope the restoration of the classic theme of windows

 

[breathejustice]

The Windows Classic theme says "You can breathe now!" i suffocate (and might die ) when using XP's colourful themes, or Vista/7 aero or glass themes or even 8/8.1/10 flat colour themes.

I dare to say that Mac OSX users participated in designing Windows theme from Windows 8 to 10. It is all bright white. Windows 10 has no borders and no active/inactive windows bar

 

[3link9]

If only I could use 98/XP again....(except in VMs)
Sorry I get very Nostalgic XD

 

[jamescv7]

In such package design, Vista as quite appealing however performance isn't wise.

When 7 released, the package design is simple but the reliability is totally blazing fast.

When 8 released, colourful package appearance released but performance and user friendly brought many issues.

When 10 released, seems simple and not occupied very much white background but performance brought good impression by majority of users.

But what's my point? Sometimes simplicity of design but high quality of performance is always better at all + considering the company is highly influence to gather lots of users.

 

[Vasudev]

I dare to say that Mac OSX users participated in designing Windows theme from Windows 8 to 10. It is all bright white. Windows 10 has no borders and no active/inactive windows bar

The main problem with MS was designing both phone & desktop OS w/o any noticeable difference, that is why W10 uses white background which is favourable for most IPS LCD phones as IPS needs low power to display white than black. For me, w10 seems incomplete as MS said. MS already states W10 as incomplete and they'll refine it over the years so users can't complain. One problem that is bugging me was, search won't work on w10 even its disabled but searching worked on earlier versions of windows. Can anyone confirm this? I therefore theorized that MS came with an efficient code to keep search service turned that didn't consume massive amt of RAM.