>>453292
>as is the case with nike, mercedes, starbucks, playboy, google and most other well known businesses.

Fist of all, "Windows" is not the name of a company, it's a product.
As for the companies you mention-

> Nike
Nike's "swoosh" logo is a stylized wing, inspired by the wings of the Greek goddess Nike.

>Mercedes
the 3 pointed "star" device in a circle was a mixture of two older badges and (like the BMW logo) at the time represented in part their manufacture of aircraft engines by suggesting a propeller.

Also, unlike the early iterations of the Windows logo that were rightly dropped for being shitty, that logo is recognized because it is a century old...older if you count pre-merger use. It hasn't been drastically altered since the mid 1920s because it is a great logo.

>Starbucks
Logo started as something entirely different and has gone through a number of revisions which indicate that there was a problem (duh)...also totally not germane since Starbuck is a fictional character from a novel and impossible to represent in a recognizable form in a logo the way a window can.

>Playboy

"Why choose a rabbit to start with for an adult magazine brand? Hugh Hefner, the creator and chief editor of Playboy Magazine, addressed this query: “The rabbit, the bunny, in America ***has a sexual meaning***, and I chose it because it’s a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – ***sexy***. First, it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and ***you want to caress it, to play with it***. A girl resembles a bunny, joyful, joking.” "

>Google

Like Starbucks, not an object that can be represented realistically by a recognizable graphic, it's essentially meaningless out of context. Also an incredibly shitty logo.

>Audi-

"In 1932...With the formation of Auto Union, a new logo was introduced...This logo featured four rings, each representing one of the four brands (Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer), connected together."

Four auto brands unified...Auto Union.

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