I kid you not! The BBC radio transmission Outriders had an Os-Tan special episode in December! o_O
Aside from the obvious awesomeness of of an Os-tan special on BBC radio, there were some interesting info:
Nanami Madobe is not official according to MS Japan.
However, Microsoft Japan does support her and Windows-tans in general.
The Silverlight-tans are of course official.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/2010/12/text_soundtracks_and_assistant.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/2010/12/text_soundtracks_and_assistant.shtml)
Sorry double post
Holy spritz! This is awesome. XD;;
SEE GUIZE I TOLD YOU NANAMI IS A FRAUD. :<
Quote from: Bella on January 04, 2011, 02:25:42 PM
Holy spritz! This is awesome. XD;;
SEE GUIZE I TOLD YOU NANAMI IS A FRAUD. :<
She's not a fraud, MS supports her! é_é
...kinda.
Like the CIA and the Bay of Pigs. Either way, good going BBC!
Either way, Futaba 7-tan is way awesome-er. Go you, permanent-comb-girl!
Quote from: NejinOniwa on January 04, 2011, 04:48:43 PM
Either way, Futaba 7-tan is way awesome-er. Go you, permanent-comb-girl!
Here here brutha! Futaba 7-tan FTW!
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s320/BellasOS-tans/1291347454959.jpg)
Ugh, I've got to say, personally I think the Futaba 7 I've seen are just as horrible as all the Vistan designs I ever saw. >.< I definitely prefer the MS one by far.
edit: *forgot she wasn't supposed to meddle here, flees*
Quote from: Pitkin on January 04, 2011, 05:05:05 PM
Ugh, I've got to say, personally I think the Futaba 7 I've seen are just as horrible as all the Vistan designs I ever saw. >.< I definitely prefer the MS one by far.
edit: *forgot she wasn't supposed to meddle here, flees*
*hug* <3
FINALLY, someone who agrees~~
bookmark'd. guys, should we comment the site on to that article, or avoid it since we just moved? :\
Quote from: Chocofreak13 on January 04, 2011, 07:08:44 PM
Quote from: Pitkin on January 04, 2011, 05:05:05 PM
Ugh, I've got to say, personally I think the Futaba 7 I've seen are just as horrible as all the Vistan designs I ever saw. >.< I definitely prefer the MS one by far.
edit: *forgot she wasn't supposed to meddle here, flees*
*hug* <3
FINALLY, someone who agrees~~
bookmark'd. guys, should we comment the site on to that article, or avoid it since we just moved? :\
I agree as well... Madobe Nanami FTW. The fact that she isn't official only makes her even more awesome. How so? Well... because that means that what is basically a group of os-tan fans went throught all the trouble of creating an os-tan, giving an official announcement of her creation, hiring
Nana Mizuki to voice her and
paying an animation studio to create the TV spot we saw
to advertise a product that isn't even theirs. Oh, and creating a Madobe Nanami twitter account and organizing Madobe Nanami events.
And, lest we forget, tricking the whole os-tan community into believing for well over a year that Nanami Madobe was official. And encouraging MS Taiwan to start the Silverlight-tan project.
The fact that it helped them sell some PCs with Win7 Ultimate notwithstanding, that takes some
serious dedication.
I think Nanami has more than earned her place as the official Win7-tan in the os-tan community.
Btw, I think BBC already knows of this site (kinda hard to miss it while googling "os-tans"), but I think they decided not to mention it because it has a mature section... (you know, TV regulations and all that stuff)
Quote from: Nuker on January 05, 2011, 03:08:49 AM
Quote from: Chocofreak13 on January 04, 2011, 07:08:44 PM
Quote from: Pitkin on January 04, 2011, 05:05:05 PM
Ugh, I've got to say, personally I think the Futaba 7 I've seen are just as horrible as all the Vistan designs I ever saw. >.< I definitely prefer the MS one by far.
edit: *forgot she wasn't supposed to meddle here, flees*
*hug* <3
FINALLY, someone who agrees~~
bookmark'd. guys, should we comment the site on to that article, or avoid it since we just moved? :\
I agree as well... Madobe Nanami FTW. The fact that she isn't official only makes her even more awesome. How so? Well... because that means that what is basically a group of os-tan fans went throught all the trouble of creating an os-tan, giving an official announcement of her creation, hiring Nana Mizuki to voice her and paying an animation studio to create the TV spot we saw to advertise a product that isn't even theirs. Oh, and creating a Madobe Nanami twitter account and organizing Madobe Nanami events.
And, lest we forget, tricking the whole os-tan community into believing for well over a year that Nanami Madobe was official. And encouraging MS Taiwan to start the Silverlight-tan project.
The fact that it helped them sell some PCs with Win7 Ultimate notwithstanding, that takes some serious dedication.
I think Nanami has more than earned her place as the official Win7-tan in the os-tan community.
gotta love japan. and i'd say she arrived with less of a walk, and more of a crater. -w-
When did all of this happen?
Wait...
WHERE WAS I IN TIME AND SPACE WHEN ALL OF THIS HAPPENED?!
DAMN ALINES!! I WANT MY LIFE BACK!! >:(
*takes a deep breath*
Soo... Nanami isn't official, but it supported by MS Japan, but then we have MS Taiwan with actually official Silverlight-tans. Hmm... makes me think that MSFT should pull a Wikipedia and hold contests (or whatever they did) to choose the best representation of what their tan should be. Ugh... my mind 'sploded' with all of the stuff I read here, I don't even know what I am thinking anymore... @__@
don't overthink it. just let it die. -w-
Actually, Kiso, MS Japan hasn't said that they only support Nanami Madobe... MS Japan has said that it supports the whole windows-tan phenomenon. =D
to be fair, there were several mascots with themepacks for windows 7. we seem to forget the bing girls.....even though they're more mascots for bing rather than win 7 ^^;
BTW do anyone have those Themepacks? I couldn't manage to DL those...
i got em' all, nanami (w/ the do-it-yourself version for vista and before), and a few ones i made. will give upon request.
I had no idea BBC even had a feature like that. Awesome!
Nuker, that is amazing. I wonder how Microsoft felt about that? A screw probably fell loose after that. XD "...they know we're rich, right? We can make our own commercials." I think the fanmade ads are nicer than the official ads. IDK about Japan, but here and in Canada, I have to watch someone do pushups with his tongue. D:
better than the german commercial for XP, in which a man attempting to remove a woman's bra is confronted by an "enter password" prompt. :\
Quote from: Chocofreak13 on April 14, 2011, 12:09:06 AM
better than the german commercial for XP, in which a man attempting to remove a woman's bra is confronted by an "enter password" prompt. :\
*facepalm*
Oh Germany. That one amuses me the most, for some reason.
i think it was on "year's funniest commercials", or something like that.
there's also this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk) windows commercial. :3
Epic ad from my favourite era in Microsoft history. x)
That Windows 1.0 ad is classic, although I also like the Windows 95 ad that featured Start Me Up
Never saw the Windows 95 commercial, but that 1.0 commercial is hilarious! It's so hammy! :D
Ballmer is a Large Ham. >__>
Quote from: Aurora Borealis on April 14, 2011, 09:05:17 PM
Never saw the Windows 95 commercial
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM
QuoteBallmer is a Large Ham. >__>
You sure he's just ONE large ham?
Had I seen that Windows 1.0 ad back in time I'd still be using an Amiga...
@pentium: lulz. computers were so boxish back then. >w<;
@nej: i'd say he's a conglomeration of several hams sort of shredded and then poured into a Balllimer™ Mold. :\
@pitkin: you have to give it this: it was cheap. -w-