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Cute Anime Girls Driving Sales of Windows 8 in Japan

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Dai101

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moe always sells

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For an even larger profit, Microsoft needs to get on the ball and bundle it with a Windows-tan dakimakura. WTF are they waiting for?
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm pretty sure its not considered a positive to be an anime dork in Japan.
 

Extollere

Sucks at poetry
That is cute as fuck! As long as the voices weren't too annoying I'd buy it. My wife would probably murder me though.

These stores are the greatest. So much porn to cater anyone's needs. Never have I been so overwhelmed than walking into one of these havens.

Must book... trip.. to Japan.
 

Dram

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Microsoft to Have Booth at Japan’s Largest Comic Convention, Selling Limited-Edition Windows 8 PC

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/11/22/microsoft-to-have-booth-at-japans-largest-comic-convention-selling-limited-edition-windows-8-pc/

Microsoft Japan is getting serious about their anthropomorphic operating systems.

Until recently, these characters, also known as OS-tans, were nothing more than unofficial fan-made creations. However, as we saw last month with the popularity of the Windows 8 DSP edition, Microsoft has begun to embrace their anime mascots, perhaps realizing their marketing potential among the otaku, or nerd, demographic. And now, for the first time ever, Microsoft will be delving into the belly of the beast and running a booth at Japan’s largest comic book convention, Comic Market.

This December, visitors to Comic Market, also known as Comiket, will be able to purchase a slew of limited-edition Windows anime character goods and computer peripherals. Microsoft has also hinted that they will be selling a special Windows 8 PC made in collaboration with a “certain anime property.” No clue as to what anime it could be, but the more pressing question is: who goes to a comic convention to buy a new PC?

The decision to hold a booth at this year’s Comiket came as a result of the adoption of Microsoft’s cloud service system, Windows Azure, to distribute the first ever digital version of the notoriously thick Comiket exhibition catalog.


While we can certainly expect to see Windows 8 sisters Yuu and Ai Madobe, Microsoft also promises that their Windows Azure mascot character, Claudia, will be in attendance as well to promote her handiwork.

Claudia is a 26-year-old novice systems engineer and firm advocate of Windows Azure as a hassle-free way to deal with time-consuming issues like hardware maintenance, patches and upgrades.

Last year, Microsoft Japan launched a manga web series to promote Windows Azure called Cloud Girl. In the series, Claudia personifies the Windows Azure cloud service as she solves a variety of network and administrative problems. Her cousin and Windows 7 mascot, Nanami Madobe, also makes an appearance as a troubled computer shop employee:

Link to the manga series Cloud Girl http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/hh508969 it's in Japanese
 
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