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'''Windows Color System''' (WCS) is a platform for [[color management]] first included with [[Windows Vista]] that aims to achieve color consistency across various software and hardware, including cameras, monitors, printers and scanners.<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/WCS.mspx Windows Color System]</ref> Different devices interpret the same colors differently, according to their software and hardware configurations. As a result, they must be properly calibrated to reproduce colors consistently across different devices. WCS aims to make this process of [[color calibration]] automatic and transparent, as an evolution of [[ICC profile]]s.