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|tanname= Windows 2.0-tan
| colspan=2 style=text-align:center; | [[Image:Windows2_0tanavatar.jpg]]
|image= windows2-0avi.png
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! Also Known As:
| None
|- 
! Original Creator:
| Aurora Borealis and C-Chan
|- 
! First appearance:
| September 2006
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! OS Personified:
| Windows 2.0
|- 
! OS Developer:
| Microsoft
|- 
! First Released:
| November 1, 1987
|- 
! Latest Stable Release:
| v. 2.03, November 1987
|}


|cname= Windows 2.0-tan
|alias= 2.0-chan
|debut= Sep 2006
|height= 127 cm (4'2")
|haircolor= Black
|eyecolor= Blue
|apfaction= [[Binteeji Renmei]]
|lineage= [[Win9x|DOS/Win9x]]


'''Windows 2.0-tan''' (2.0たん) is one of the least common Windows personifications. She personifies Windows 2.0, which was a version of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environment that superseded Windows 1.0. It was Microsoft's second attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform.
|osper= Windows 2.0
|osdev= Microsoft
|reldate= 1 Nov 1987
|lastrel= v2.03 (Nov 1987)


Despite the popularity of Windows-based OS-tans, there are considerably few renditions of Windows OSes prior to version 3.1.  One possible reason for this omission can be traced to the perception of Windows 3.1 as marking the beginning of Microsoft Windows' rise to dominance (hence, the origin of the Windows family), and thus delegating versions 1.0 and 2.0 as simply younger facets of the more memorable version 3.1.  Therefore, only a handful of designs that can be confirmed by OSC to exist, all of which share similar-enough traits to be considered as a single character rendition. 
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Windows 2.0-tan is depicted as a young woman in her late teens/early 20's of maternal disposition, not unlike Windows NT-tan.  She is the daughter of Windwos 1.0-tan. She has bright blue eyes, short black hair, and wears a large white hairband behind her head in the shape of a giant 2.0. She wears a simple one-piece blue dress and 1920's style dress shoes of a similar color to match.  Owing to the improvements that 2.0 made to 1.0, her clothing is often depicted as being better made than 1.0's.
==Technical Details==
Released 1987, Windows 2.0 was the second release of the Microsoft Windows line. While it offered improvements over its predecessor, it was still quite rudimentary and incomplete.  


However, although she knows her descendants by name, few if any modern Windows OS-tans are aware of her existence.  Both Windows 1.0-tan and her daughter 2.0-tan were exiled prior to the onset of the commercial OS Wars, with their association to the current family all but severed.  Windows 2.0-tan is therefore the only family member with whom she has lived with for any extended period of time.
==Character Details==
===Physical===
Windows 2.0-tan is depicted as a young girl with blue eyes, short, hime-cut black hair with two long locks and bangs. She wears a blue and white school uniform with lavender socks and black shoes, and a white headband whose ends have been tied in the shape of "2.0".  


She is often depicted with leather gloves, tools, scuffs and dirt, reflecting her role as a stone-mason. <ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/c-quel/art/Chibi-Windows-1-0-and-2-0-tan-104809209 Chibi Windows 1.0 and 2.0]</ref>


See also:
===Personality===
*[[List of OS-tans]]
2.0-tan is sensitive, shy and mature beyond her years. Though she had a trusting personality and cheery outlook earlier in life, she is now mistrustful and perpetually melancholy.  
*[[Windows 1.0]]


[[Category:Windows]]
She deals with trauma from the breakup of her family and her subsequent exile, manifesting in bouts of sleepwalking and night terrors. <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,460.msg35993.html#msg35993 "OS-tan families"]: "1.0-san doesn't say a thing, but her expression is enough to let Amiga know what's happening.  She gets dressed and runs outside in the moonlit pasture, until she hears 2.0-chan gasping, crying and convulsing near a creek."</ref>
 
==History and Background==
2.0-tan was born into the old [[Microsoft-IBM_Family | MS-IBM family]] and lived a carefree childhood, getting into mischief and playfully facing off against rival Mac gangs. She was loved and cared for by her mother [[OSC Windows 1.0 | 1.0-tan]] and the family maid [[Xenix | Xenix-tan]].<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,460.msg35993.html#msg35993 "OS-tan Families"]: 'She then meets off with a young OS/2-tan who loves to ruffle her hair, and later with the two DOS sisters.  Before they head home, they go off to fish for a very civil, Musical-style face-off . . . with the local Mac Gang, but Xenix-san comes in to interject and takes the little troublemakers back "home" . . .  There they have a very pleasant dinner prepared by Xenix with help from 1.0-san . . .'</ref> She was especially close with her older stepsister [[OS/2 | OS/2-tan]], who initially pitied 2.0-tan but came to respect her as a peer,<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1200.msg12681.html#msg12681 "OS-tan Annex Project"]: 'When Windows 2.0-tan was born, for example, OS/2-tan took pity on what she thought would be the "last Windows" ever created, and looked after her like an overprotective step sister.  Soon both would become genuinely friendly though.']</ref> going as far as making a pact to stay with each other no matter what.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,460.msg35993.html#msg35993 "OS-tan Families"]: "Both of them exchange promises to look after one another, and always be together to the end."</ref>
 
Her idealism was damaged after Xenix-tan left, the official line that she'd retired suddenly not matching with OS/2-tan's eyewitness account of the event.<ref>"Later the kids are told that Xenix-san wanted to retire early, but OS/2-tan confides to 2.0-chan her concerns."</ref> However, her doubts were assuaged by the birth of [[Windows 3.1 | Windows 3.1-tan]], and her new role as big sister,<ref>"3.0-chan is born and any lingering fear or doubt by 2.0-chan is dispelled by her energetic and bubbly little sister."</ref> even as she drifted away from OS/2-tan because of the latter's rigorous training.<ref>"OS/2-tan also wants to join them, but is mysteriously put into a near excessive training hours . . ."</ref> 2.0-tan didn't realize that 3.1-tan was being trained to replace OS/2-tan, although OS/2-tan had suspicions.
 
Any remaining illusions were broken when the family was suddenly and acrimoniously split into separate IBM and MS factions. OS/2-tan tried to give 2.0-tan instructions, but was taken away before she could.<ref>" OS/2 spots 2.0-chan and screams out some hurried and desperate things that sound like warnings or instructions, but 2.0-chan is taken out of earshot range before she could hear it all."</ref> While 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan remained with the family for several years afterward, they were eventually banished,<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,627.msg52826.html#msg52826 "OS-tan theories and discussion"]: "the two were still around after NT-san and 95-an were born.  But given the direction the company was already going in, the NT and 95 were pushed into training, indoctrination and conditioning almost immediately.  Since mixing with their NON-belligerent relatives would've been counterproductive, it's likely neither pair was made to meet one another . . . "</ref> living as wanderers amidst the chaos of the OS Wars and Unix Wars.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/bellacielo/art/Linux-tan-comic-page-30-104870902 Linux-tan comic, page 30]</ref>
 
2.0-tan and her mother eventually banded together with [[Amiga | Amiga-tan]], [[Apple II | Apple II-tan]] and others, forming the [[Binteeji Renmei]] as a sanctuary for vintage OS-tans.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,460.msg35993.html#msg35993 "Mac Party Redux!"]</ref> Here, 2.0-tan found the security and purpose her life had been missing, and friends who understand her.
 
==Notes==
* Angelica (Gunslinger Girl) is cited as an inspiration for Windows 2.0-tan.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,239.msg7184.html#msg7184 "Inspiration"]</ref>
 
==Fanworks==
 
==References==
 
[[Category:Windows]] [[Category:Vintage]]

Latest revision as of 10:46, 12 November 2025

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Windows 2.0-tan
Windows2-0avi.png
Character Information
Common Names Windows 2.0-tan
Other Names 2.0-chan
Faction Binteeji Renmei
Lineage DOS/Win9x
Appearance
Height 127 cm (4'2")
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Blue
Design
First Appearance Sep 2006
Technical Information
System Personified Windows 2.0
Developer(s) Microsoft
Debut 1 Nov 1987
Latest release v2.03 (Nov 1987)


Technical Details

Released 1987, Windows 2.0 was the second release of the Microsoft Windows line. While it offered improvements over its predecessor, it was still quite rudimentary and incomplete.

Character Details

Physical

Windows 2.0-tan is depicted as a young girl with blue eyes, short, hime-cut black hair with two long locks and bangs. She wears a blue and white school uniform with lavender socks and black shoes, and a white headband whose ends have been tied in the shape of "2.0".

She is often depicted with leather gloves, tools, scuffs and dirt, reflecting her role as a stone-mason. [1]

Personality

2.0-tan is sensitive, shy and mature beyond her years. Though she had a trusting personality and cheery outlook earlier in life, she is now mistrustful and perpetually melancholy.

She deals with trauma from the breakup of her family and her subsequent exile, manifesting in bouts of sleepwalking and night terrors. [2]

History and Background

2.0-tan was born into the old MS-IBM family and lived a carefree childhood, getting into mischief and playfully facing off against rival Mac gangs. She was loved and cared for by her mother 1.0-tan and the family maid Xenix-tan.[3] She was especially close with her older stepsister OS/2-tan, who initially pitied 2.0-tan but came to respect her as a peer,[4] going as far as making a pact to stay with each other no matter what.[5]

Her idealism was damaged after Xenix-tan left, the official line that she'd retired suddenly not matching with OS/2-tan's eyewitness account of the event.[6] However, her doubts were assuaged by the birth of Windows 3.1-tan, and her new role as big sister,[7] even as she drifted away from OS/2-tan because of the latter's rigorous training.[8] 2.0-tan didn't realize that 3.1-tan was being trained to replace OS/2-tan, although OS/2-tan had suspicions.

Any remaining illusions were broken when the family was suddenly and acrimoniously split into separate IBM and MS factions. OS/2-tan tried to give 2.0-tan instructions, but was taken away before she could.[9] While 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan remained with the family for several years afterward, they were eventually banished,[10] living as wanderers amidst the chaos of the OS Wars and Unix Wars.[11]

2.0-tan and her mother eventually banded together with Amiga-tan, Apple II-tan and others, forming the Binteeji Renmei as a sanctuary for vintage OS-tans.[12] Here, 2.0-tan found the security and purpose her life had been missing, and friends who understand her.

Notes

  • Angelica (Gunslinger Girl) is cited as an inspiration for Windows 2.0-tan.[13]

Fanworks

References

  1. ↑ Chibi Windows 1.0 and 2.0
  2. ↑ "OS-tan families": "1.0-san doesn't say a thing, but her expression is enough to let Amiga know what's happening. She gets dressed and runs outside in the moonlit pasture, until she hears 2.0-chan gasping, crying and convulsing near a creek."
  3. ↑ "OS-tan Families": 'She then meets off with a young OS/2-tan who loves to ruffle her hair, and later with the two DOS sisters. Before they head home, they go off to fish for a very civil, Musical-style face-off . . . with the local Mac Gang, but Xenix-san comes in to interject and takes the little troublemakers back "home" . . . There they have a very pleasant dinner prepared by Xenix with help from 1.0-san . . .'
  4. ↑ "OS-tan Annex Project": 'When Windows 2.0-tan was born, for example, OS/2-tan took pity on what she thought would be the "last Windows" ever created, and looked after her like an overprotective step sister. Soon both would become genuinely friendly though.']
  5. ↑ "OS-tan Families": "Both of them exchange promises to look after one another, and always be together to the end."
  6. ↑ "Later the kids are told that Xenix-san wanted to retire early, but OS/2-tan confides to 2.0-chan her concerns."
  7. ↑ "3.0-chan is born and any lingering fear or doubt by 2.0-chan is dispelled by her energetic and bubbly little sister."
  8. ↑ "OS/2-tan also wants to join them, but is mysteriously put into a near excessive training hours . . ."
  9. ↑ " OS/2 spots 2.0-chan and screams out some hurried and desperate things that sound like warnings or instructions, but 2.0-chan is taken out of earshot range before she could hear it all."
  10. ↑ "OS-tan theories and discussion": "the two were still around after NT-san and 95-an were born. But given the direction the company was already going in, the NT and 95 were pushed into training, indoctrination and conditioning almost immediately. Since mixing with their NON-belligerent relatives would've been counterproductive, it's likely neither pair was made to meet one another . . . "
  11. ↑ Linux-tan comic, page 30
  12. ↑ "Mac Party Redux!"
  13. ↑ "Inspiration"
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