In my last post I talked about the Blue Monster of Microsoft, created by cartoonist Hugh MacLeod and, reportedly, adopted by a growing number of employees as a mascot.
This morning I learned about
the weird phenomenon of the OS-tans - various computer operating systems represented as Japanese cartoon characters, usually pretty girls. For example,
here's a short video of Windows XP displaying her...um...assets? Liabilities? (Whether her large chest represents a feature-rich interface or huge memory requirements is apparently
up for debate.)

(From
The Mike Abundo Effect)
Tags:
branding,
Microsoft,
OS-tan,
consumer generated content