Windows 7 Gets Official Nana Mizuki & OS-tan Theme
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 27, 2009 06:36 JST
- Tags: Idol, Marketing, Microsoft, Moe, Nana Mizuki, OS-tan, Seiyuu, Technology
Users of Windows 7 in Japan will receive a new theme that is voiced by popular seiyuu idol, Mizuki Nana, along with an officially sanctioned OS-tan, Nanami Madobe.
The theme, only available by preordering Microsoft’s latest operating system, is said to be the only localised original theme to date, proving even Microsoft is acknowledging the selling power of moe in Japan.
The recruitment of Nana Mizuki is not surprising considering her chart topping popularity throughout 2009, and also considering she shares the same name as the operating system (nana = 7).
It is still not clear whether the newly introduced image character for Windows 7 that comes with the theme, 窓辺ななみ / Nanami Madobe (whose name is a series of dire puns), will be adapted as the official Windows 7 “OS-tan“, who were formerly fan-created…
Via Akiba-PC
Top 10 Most Followed Seiyuu
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Wondrous As Ever
Ciel nosurge: “Your Date With Ion = $170″
Nisemonogatari – “Where Did All The Ero Go!?”
Police Hunt Ushijima for “Public Indecency”
Cops Bust Cop in Nude BDSM Club Raid
K-ON! “Causes Keionbu Girl Band Boom”
Vippers vs Vankers: 2ch Targets “Korean Propaganda”
Overflow Delays “Final” Game: “We Are Not Going Bankrupt!”
Ritsu Topless Manga Time – “She Has Boobs After All!”
Top 10 Most Boring Anime of Winter 2012
Behold: The ONACOUNTER
Future Diary Unveils Eye-Popping Scenes of Sex & Guro
K-ON! Pilgrims Invade London
Top 10 Essential Anime Elements
Lolicon Teacher Rapes Pupils 37 Times, Faces 30 Years
Strike Witches Movie Trailer Unveiled
China Menaced by Exploding Coins
TMA Makes “BL” Tiger & Bunny Cosplay AV
Hatsune Miku Takes Over New Chitose Airport
“Post The Highest Level Cosplay Ever!”
“Share The Cutest Cosplay Ever”
“Dolls vs Figures – Which is Best?”
“Why Do Girls Always Have Such Cute Rooms!?”
Ranka Lee Wedding Dress Cosplay by Tomia
Shoko-tan’s Madoka & Ika-chan Cosplay “Excessively Cute”
Guilty Crown Yuzuriha Inori Cosplay by Sasa
IdolMaster G4U: “Who Needs 3D Idols Now?”
Anegasaki Nene Cosplay by Rinami
“I Want To See What The Vipper Girls Wear To Bed!”
OS-tan wins...
Looks like she has a Twitter:
http://twitter.com/windows7_nanami
Also, the first person to upload the theme after Windows 7 comes out is the hero of the Internet.
she looks cute...I would want to check out this theme.
I don't like Windows 7. They got these messages like "Are you sure?" over and over again.
I really won't mind if it goes "Ii desuka? oniichan~" everytime that UAC windows pops up...
hehe, that would be nice indeed!
MOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ok, i've analysed several stores that has this 'offer'. here's the catch, this offer is valid for:
1. DSP (OEM) version only. so it must be bundled with at least single piece of hardware. varies store-to-store, most bundles it with cheapo internal FDD drive.
2. Limited stock pre-order. Huge stores has seemingly limitless stock, though...
3. Win 7 ULTIMATE only. WTF!?
Verdict : No, thanks. I'll stick with the $30 student-only version and wait for someone to upload this tokuten 'offer'.
What? PAY for winblows?! Dude you're doin it wrong!
only in japan? :(
I'm getting Windows 7 and I'm sure somebody will find a way to make this theme usable for non-japan Windows systems! ^^
Kinda want, but i'll stick with Windows XP.
Windows 7 has an XP mode. Want to reconsider?
It seems it's a very slow XP mode not supporting games...
Use VMware instead of Microsoft's XP Mode
http://labs.v3.co.uk/2009/07/our-recent-top.html
Seems to me 7 is a fixed & slimmed down version of vista.
Anyway it all depends on your PC hardware as what is for XP might not be compatable for 7 as like Vista.
I stick with what I have, don't want to take chances.
Agreed~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=O I want buy that version of windows
if only this would happen in the US
Window 7 & Madobe Nanami seems to be interesting...
Soon or later I'll try out Window 7, to know if Madobe Nanami will be my favourite OS-tan. LoL XD
I saw this on 4chan some time ago and didnt thought its official. It seems it its.
Microsoft is putting lot of money into marketing worldwide. And Japan is not an exception it seems.
Also from what I heard, theme will be on separate DVD and taking into account "theme" system in Win 7 is pretty simple and easy, making use only of background wallpapers, transparency color, sounds and screensaver, it will be probably only few walls, sounds and screensaver or two. And it will be ripped and shared on net few hours after it comes out. Thats good for us..
What thing interests me is if they give her some kind of personality. It would be cool if they give some kind of short comic or something else to give her at least bit of personality. And knowing it is marketing thing, personality will be pretty much perfect trying to reflect advertised product. But I would like her to have her "quirks", but I can only hope for this..
Also fanart where???!!!
Get a petition for an international release NOW. We'll all sign it and send it to Microsoft.
Meh, I'll wait for the Ubuntu ripoff of this, no way am I paying for Windows.
Actually I wouldn't even use it if thew would pay me for using it.
I meant Windows of course.
>paying for Windows.
The hell are you talking about? Who the hell pays for their windows?
Ubunchu!
I'm wondering how this will work. Will she pop up and say something's broken instead of using an error message?
just one more tiny chip to add to the ever-growing pile of reasons i should be living in japan and not freaking florida.
They need to release this theme here too, damn it.
i demand a localization of this localized product
I am pretty sure this theme will be taken over to USA via a download somewhere. It will happen I am sure :)
LOL I HOPE THAT IT IS RELEASED IN A YAOI VERSION, JUST FOR NYX-
eh?
It's up for download already, ('fixed' for use with the english version of windows 7!)Hell, I'm using it on my vista machine atm! (Had to do some tweaking, but still awesome.)
Where?! I want it liek nao!
Windows constanlty fails at making things easy. The fact is: to make a computer more user-frindly, you have to make more complex hardware and OS that can automate all the stuff, and that's where it fails, it just cant handle all the useless stuff Microsoft putting in there - at least one service or driver always gets an error.
Computers dosnt need to be user-friendly. They doesnt need to be easy at all. All the stuff should be done manually like in good ol' unix systems.
Bottom line is: Study computers, or GTFO and never use them. You dont deserve to use them if you doesnt know a shit about them. It makes you stupid. And it allows OS's like Windows, and all the commercial bullshit with it to exist.
Want to get that theme T_T
Blue outfit? Cute.
Matches the Screen o' Death nicely xD
http://wakarimasenlol.com/2009/09/28/madobe-nanami-windows-7-os-tan/3399
More colours
I WANT MY NANA xD
OH GOD
WANT
WINDOWS7
SO BAD NOW
This just makes me jealous of Japan's exclusive stuff.
Where's Server 2008 R2-tan?
At least somebody can voice her
I'm sorry, but Nana Mizuki voicing an OS tan? That's just... fucking epic.
PreCure Fresh hairclip XD
Nana Mizuki as Cure Windows
wonder who gets to voice Cure Mac, Cure Nix and Cure DOS?
No need to buy Win7 jap edition, just use Win7 ULTIMATE and install japanese language pack and you're done. Ultimate is universal on-the-fly.
Is there any screenshot or video of what will it looks like?
do want...
That's pretty cool... hope I'll be able to import it to an Western version
Next thing ya know, the OS-tans will star in their own music game. Or even better, a fighter pitting them against the Vocaloids.
I'm still waiting for the next step: where they have *AIs* with Japanese VAs (or English-speaking VAs for those of us too strapped for time/strapped for cash/stupid to actually be able to learn Japanese)!
I can imagine one of them pulling a HAL-9000..... Yandere Moe AI? Yes, please.
Hey, that's an awesome idea for a game~
But who would win the battle, OS-tans or Vocaloids?
Touhou girls for teh win
qft
Microsoft vs Yamaha! Just like moe version of the "Marvel vs" series.
Of course, Vista will be the final boss, with her unstoppable 3 bar supper "Red Screen of Death".
Time to fight against the RRoD with vocaloids!!!
hell yeah XD
Or, knowing Microsoft, they'll fight against butt ugly Mac OS and Linux strawmen.
I'm sure there will be a western adaptation, and boy do I want it when it's available.
Especially if its starring the voice of DAN MUTHERf*ckin GREEN!
Brilliant OS-tan!
damn you microsoft!!!
now is trying to abuse the power of moe to sell their sh*t and i have to admit that im feeling tempted >.>
anyway my penguin will rape your loli!!!
waiting for fanart~ ^^
less than 2% of userbase, lol
STILL waiting for the year of linux
Microsoft are really going all out to sell Windows 7 with things like this, the specially selected journalists given early access for reviews, the heavily discounted pre-order scheme to try and generate hype and giving away copies so people can put on a Windows 7 launch party to try and get the Microsoft fanatics to promote their product.
It seems they know they've got a really shitty product on their hands and so are trying desperately to find ways to sell it. I'll be sticking with XP until and hoping Chrome OS will be decent since it seems Microsoft have lost all clue how to make a decent operating system.
Short version: Win7 is better than WinXP.
I've used XP, Vista, and 7 RC (all fully updated) on the same laptop and also on an older desktop for XP (until it was retired due to hardware-related problems).
I loved XP like crazy; I even thought it was perfect when I used it on the desktop as it did everything I needed it to do with everything I used at hand.
My laptop came with Vista pre-installed, and I used that for almost a year and a half (both RTM and SP1 and with Aero enabled) until I decided to downgrade to XP; I actually had no problems using either milestone of Vista, but I wanted to see how different it would be to use XP on the same machine instead.
XP didn't last long; after about a month, I reverted to Vista after I noticed a couple of strange "bottlenecks" in performance (somewhat slower during online gaming) and networking (download speed only 1/3 of typical). I made sure to get the latest appropriate drivers from the support site and a couple other places also, but nothing I did seemed to fix these problems.
I got Win7 RC a little after it was made publicly available to try it out, and what I can say after using it is: it works very similarly to Vista, but offers some upgraded and better features. The RC actually worked very well for being only a beta build, and I would've continued to use it, but I returned to my previous Vista setup a few days ago to prepare for the arrival of my RTM upgrade.
I'm never using WinXP again (or Vista once I have Win7).
This proves that Windows work well....after a couple of patches. For one reason or another, Microsoft did not squish as many bugs as possible before release, more content to handle the squishing AFTER release. And honestly, I think it's a shitty marketing strategy.
You should try out Windows 7. I did and it's fine. Although a machine rated to run Windows XP will not run Windows 7 at top performance, obviously. Stop being so cynical.
I did try out Windows 7, that's exactly how I know how bad it is. Microsoft were making continuous improvements int their operating system up up until Windows 2000 which was excellent. From there they had no clue how to improve things further and for the most part have been breaking things that didn't need fixing in the first place.
Windows 7 offers nothing of value while at the same time breaking things that did work. For example, while Windows XP has full hardware 2D acceleration Windows Vista and 7 don't so the 2D rendering is all done on the processor and as a result runs like shit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM
That's nothing to do with having a "machine rated for Windows XP" it's that the processor is substantially slower for graphics rendering than the graphics card so even on a top end machine Windows 7 is very slow for graphics rendering.
Microsoft have never had to run promotions to sell their operating systems in the past so they clearly know Windows 7 is junk so are running a wide range of promotions to try and get people to pre-order.
I am a beta tester for M$ since XP, and I can assure you Win7 is good. Heck, since Vista, the intuitive interface makes it harder to reuse XP. Besides, XP has hit it's limit. Native quad core, DX10/11, direct IO file copying, those are some problems that XP can't fix anymore
@ Anaon 11:40
You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. Firstly the Windows 7 interface does not use Direct2D for graphics rendering, hence why it's so slow.
Secondly, in order to take advantage of Direct 2D the graphics code in existing applications has to be rewritten. However, Direct2D has not been ported to Windows XP which means if you use Direct2D your application won't run on 72% of computers (those running XP). No company can afford to write an application that won't run on the majority of their customers PCs hence why nobody is using Direct2D and nobody will be using it for many years to come. Look at the comments on Thomas Olsen's blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/thomasolsen/archive/2008/10/29/introducing-the-microsoft-direct2d-api.aspx
They're all requests to port Direct2D to Windows XP because until that happens nobody can afford to use Direct2D. For that reasons users of Windows 7 will have to put up with shitty 2D performance for many years to come.
@ Anaon 11:51
No, I meant Windows 2K. In comparison Windows XP was incredibly bloated while offering absolutely no benefits. I only stopped using 2K because support has now stopped.
As for the "perceived hit" it's a very real hit. What's shown in the video is just a way to demonstrate how much slower the graphics performance is in Windows 7. While undesirable the terrible graphics performance in Windows 7 doesn't matter that much for things like resizing windows. However, it makes a hell of a difference for GDI intensive applications and having tried some such applications on Windows 7 I definitely won't be using it.
In reply to Anon 11:12 :
You say they did well up to Win2K, but did you intend to mention WinXP instead? I smell bias...
Besides, I don't have those degrees of slowness or lag running Vista or 7 and my laptop is nowhere near as good as that guy's setup. (though I have seen what he is talking about and I do agree that there is a "perceived hint" of slowness, yet nothing that ruins your session to where it becomes hard to do anything) Honestly...
Seriously dude, don't talk out of your ass.
Windows vista supports Direct2D which now sends 2D instructions direct to your videocard and improving the actual 2D rendering speed.
If you don't like Windows 7 that's fine but don't try and spread your biased opinion just because you don't personally like Windows 7.
Jeez you're like one of those mac faggots always proclaiming that their OS/system is the best evarrrrr.
Fuck off.
This isn't marketing as much as damage control.
OS-tans acquire their 'personalities' by the software's quirks, oversights and instabilities. W7-tan is attractive because she's being depicted as perfect.
That won't last though. There will be bugs. And if there are enough bugs, she'll become the Amy Winehouse of OS-tans, no matter how much promotional material MS releases.
Windows 7 has been under public beta test and release candidate for 10 months. What we saw in the Release Candidate will be generally what we will be seeing in the Retail version, unlike Vista, where I heard during the Beta stage half the features were either pulled or changed to Make It Suck.
I've personally been testing Windows 7 for the past few months - it's much snappier than Vista, and the UI is intuitive. It's not PERFECT, but it feels like a "real" upgrade from XP compared to Vista, which felt like a $200+ downgrade.
The trouble is Windows 7 is by all accounts rather good, for a Microsoft product, so it seems they may be able to insert this into the OS-tan "canon."
It could be her running joke or "theme" that she turns out to be perfect and all the others hate her or something.
I don't see how that's trouble. We should be happy they've FINALLY made a product that's decent, since so many program for the OS anyway.
Hope we can get it xD Damn now I can't wait for it xD
I WANNA BE JAPANESE
wait thats nothing new
Microsoft know how to market. I had no intention of getting windows 7 before, but with this it has me intrigued...
Surprised they didn't plan this sooner.
also needs official music: http://xspblog.com/2009/07/19/os-tan-troubled-windows/
By far the most appealing of the OS-tans, IMO
Com on, she's not even close to the sex-appeal of 2K-tan or XP-tan
Boobs pale in comparison to the power of moe!
What about ME-tan.
Oh wait you said sex not moe.
I liked XP until I got tired of all the inflation art of her.
cute character design!! and i really love Nana Mizuki! Japan is lucky as usual.
do want
do want
do want! do very want!
I am so jealous now. T_T
Holy shit. I never knew that any of this -tan stuff could be official.
But, no doubt a bootleg version will be up for download, even for good ol' XP, sometime soon.
It's the future of OS-tan!! XD Oh man, i GOTTA buy that OS!!
(Windows 7 + moe + seiyuu idol) * otaku + # of copies of OS = $$$$$$$
You'd think they'd at least want to release OVER 9000 copies of it...
Most retailers *aren't* that meme-savvy though, sadly.
They need to release the voice pack on a seperate downloadable packet...
only 5000 copies
GAHHH, I WANA PREORDER MY WIN 7 IN JAPAN!!!!