In 2009, an Ubuntu-based comic titled Ubunchu! was serialized in Kantan Ubuntu!, a spinoff from Weekly ASCII magazine.
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This was followed up by giving Hikaru "sisters", Lei, Aoi, and Yu.Ī special package of the Japanese Windows 7 Ultimate DSP Edition, called the Touch Mouse Artist Edition or Touch Mouse Limited Edition Artist Series, came with an animated tutorial Windows theme (with custom sounds and three desktop backgrounds) featuring Madobe Nanami. This inspired Microsoft Taiwan to launch an official mascot for Microsoft Silverlight, Hikaru. Japanese version of Windows 7 Ultimate DSP Edition includes the unofficial Nanami Madobe mascot. MALINO from Deja Vu ArtWorks produced the Me Document and Shared Folder! trilogy, which were sold in digital format. Parthenon Production Limited, company had commercialized Pink Company's OS-tan products. ME-tan, 2K-tan, XP-tan were designed by GUHICO of Stranger Workshop, while 95-tan was designed by Fujisaki Shiro from H.B.Company. It also includes 95-tan, ME-tan, XP-tan figures, titled OS Girl 95, OS Girl me, OS Girl XP respectively, but include a molded space for 2k-tan (named OS Girl 2K). It includes illustrations by over 25 contributors. Ohzora Publishing produced one book based on OS-tan characters, titled Trouble Windows OS-tan FanBook ( とらぶる・うぃんどうず OSたんファンブック).
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The OS-tan is not an original concept and was pre-dated by Toy's iMac Girl, who was featured on a series of desktops released between August 1998 and March 1999. A fansub of this was eventually created and is partly responsible for the spread of the OS-tan to English language imageboards. One of the early works to predominantly feature the OS-tan was an interactive Flash animation showing a possible intro to an imaginary anime show known as Trouble Windows. Discussions on Futaba Channel likened this to the stereotype of a fickle, troublesome girl and as this personification expanded Me-tan was created and followed by the other characters. To make things even worse, episode 16 has her brutally attacked and almost killed by Google Chrome.The concept of the OS-tan is reported to have begun as a personification of the common perception of Windows Me (Released in 2000 by Microsoft as the 9x counterpart to Windows 2000) as unstable and prone to frequent crashes. She frequently gets insulted by the users, to the point where she breaks down crying, and Internet Explorer is the only browser who still uses her.
True Neutral: The Users don't seem to care about the conflict between the Web Browsers, only caring about which ones can get them to where they want to go on the Internet the fastest.Shocking Moments: The Final Battle between Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, beginning in Episode 44.And yet, he's one of the few people that could make Google Chrome look positively scared, making his sole appearance incredibly cathartic. One-Scene Wonder: Article 13 only appeared once, and he's not exactly a personification of something positive (he's the personification of the articles that would severely limit expression of freedom in the internet, like SOPA or COPPA, etc).She does all this without a lick of remorse. Moral Event Horizon: Google Chrome torturing and nearly murdering Bing for her RAM.One can say that Chrome's hatred and jealousy against Internet Explorer was because she's jealous that Internet Explorer grew in a stabler environment whereas her own family pushed her into perfectionism with the price of failure being death. Microsoft, despite leaving Internet Explorer to rot, actually bothered to save her from death by allowing her to turn into Microsoft Edge, and her video game console sister, Xbox, actually still fared quite well. One of Google's products, Stadia (technically Chrome's sister), ended up that way and she turned out miserable in the video game console version of the Dark Web. Her creator Google, however, has only a few successful products, Chrome being one of them, and those who failed or didn't meet with their expectation were quickly discarded and forgotten. She was a remorseless murderer and is obsessed on staying on top of being used by the Users.
Alternative Character Interpretation: Google Chrome, with a touch of Reality Subtext and the console comics, can afford to look like a villain who had a Freudian Excuse instead of someone who's born power hungry.