Windows 2.0
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| Also Known As: | None |
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| Original Creator: | Aurora Borealis and C-Chan |
| First appearance: | September 2006 |
| OS Personified: | Windows 2.0 |
| OS Developer: | Microsoft |
| First Released: | November 1, 1987 |
| Latest Stable Release: | v. 2.03, November 1987 |
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Windows 2.0, which was a version of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environment that superseded Windows 1.0.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.
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.
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.
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.
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