Was it Microsoft who decided text processing was blue, spreadsheets were green and presentation was orange, or was it a thing before Office/Works adopted it?

@Siph best thing I found was this ux.stackexchange.com/a/105923

it seems like both applications were teal until Office 97 and Microsoft had the smart idea to color-code them. Maybe it was inspired by the office logo being colored puzzle pieces? Office 95 had that logo but teal-colored app icons afaict

@Siph hm, looking further into it the first blue Word icon I can find is from Office 2000

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@Siph also they didn't have to go this hard on the mac versions

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