Watercolor

Watercolor (also known as Business or Professional) is the name of a placeholder visual style created by Microsoft during development of the Windows XP operating system. The first known build to include it was build 2223; however, there was no user interface to enable it and it was largely incomplete. By build 2250, the Desktop control panel was enhanced to support the new visual styles and as a result, it is often mistakenly considered to be the first build to include the visual style. The last known build to include the Watercolor theme was build 2419, although the resources for the theme remained in the Windows codebase as late as build 3790.

The early variant of the Watercolor visual style found in builds 2223 and 2250 was a dark blue and gray theme that was reminiscent of the classic theme used by Windows 2000 and earlier. The theme was later updated by build 2257 to use brighter shades of blue with red frames for disabled windows. The embedded  also includes a commented out section for a Champagne color scheme, which was likely used for testing purposes prior to build 2250 but is not functional in any known build: