With Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft introduced customisable user account pictures.  This then led to some issues.

“Windows XP is racist. It put a picture of a kung fu fighter next to my name – just because my name is Chinese. This is an insult!”
– The Old New thing blog: The martial arts logon picture

So with Windows Vista, the kung fu fighter was gone.  To be replaced with fairly innocuous images.
 

Windows 7 is released, and the flower is replaced by an androgynous user picture.
 

Which then led to complaints about gender and racial diversity.  “It’s a male!” “It’s a person of colour!” “It’s ageist”.

Fixed in Windows 8 and later.  Microsoft went bland.
 

After the read more, there is a list of images from each Windows release; from Windows XP to Windows 10.

Windows 10
 

Windows 8.1
 

Windows 8.0
 

Windows 7
 
… and the other included Windows 7 default pictures
                                  

Windows Vista
 

… and the other included Windows Vista default pictures
          

Windows XP
  

… and the other included Windows XP default pictures
                     

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