Merry Christmas from Microsoft
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 5, 2010 23:18 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Moe, OS-tan, PC Software, Taiwan, Wallpapers
Microsoft Taiwan’s Silverlight mascot Hikaru returns to wish benighted users of Microsoft’s Flash clone a merry Christmas – complete with gorgeous wallpapers.
The lovely wallpapers (although somewhat marred by the fact Microsoft apparently thinks 1920×1080 is a common resolution for monitors):
There is even a version for the victims of Microsoft’s attempt at a phone OS:
A chibi-Hikaru desktop widget thing is also available for both Windows and Mac users.
Meanwhile, Windows 7’s official moe mascot Nanami has long since been dumped from the company’s marketing efforts like so much disposable moe trash, her usefulness at an end – expect Hikaru to meet a similar fate when the next version comes out in 2011.
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Damnit MS, just make an anime with Hikaru X Nanami who will fight the evil (Steve Jobs)
Then later on Steve Jobs hires someone to make him a moe mascot or two.
My little OS-tan can't be this cute.
Technically she's not an OS-tan, but who cares when she's so HHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
fap?
What else? ®
give me an anime with this chick in it
>give me an ero-anime with this chick in it
*fixed*
She would be more successful if they made a 4koma or some little animations about her.
"Buttobi CPU" with Hikaru X Nanami fighting evil Macs
Like an TRON-like version of PreCure...
Might as well take the Pepsiman route and go the whole nine yards: Make an anime filled with erotic fanservices, or just straight up eroge.
mmmm delicious silverlight.
the ones i liked and wanted to keep are in 1440x900... my desktop is in 1680x1050 and i don't want it to look stretched :(
i blame whoever uploaded pics on sankaku and resized them
Still no idea what Silverlight does but Hikaru ain't that bad ^^
1080p is a perfectly normal resolution.
Indeed, 1920*1080 is a very common resolution for anything over 19"
Besides you can always scale down without losing resolution.
Yes 1920x1080 is standard resulution, i have 23" monitor with this resulution. I want to buy new big monitor (32") with biger resulution than HD, but i just can't get it. :(
I use a 40" LCD TV as monitor, his default res is 1920x1080, btw it's called the FULLHD res, and it is a 16:9 standard.
1920x1200 isn't standard aspect ratio, and make all thinner or taller.
Anon @ 15:06 06/12/2010
No. The 1920x1200 resolution hasn't proved to be very popular, thus making 1920x1080 even more used.
No it's not. That's an HDTV's standard resolution. Computers use 1920x1200 usually since they are 16:10 and not 16:9 like TVs.
No, Anon @ 15:06 06/12/2010 is more correct in saying this. Computer monitors are (or were at least) generally 16:10. This can easily be scaled from 2560x1600 to 1920x1200, to 1680x1050 to 1440x900 and also 1280x800, all of which are 16:10. Most older 24" monitors use 1920x1200 keeping to the defacto 16:10 monitor standard. Though, notice that I said 'older'. Newer generation monitors use 16:9 in line with HDTV resolutions. So you cant say that 1920x1200 isn't popular, since it depends on when the monitor was manufactured and the standard that they were using at the time. But because of HDTVs, the 1920x1080 is more used, and I do agree with you (Anon @ 18:46 06/12/2010) there.
In any case, it's easier to just crop 16:10 for 16:9 purposes. 1920x1200 gives you more than 1920x1080, so cropping is no big deal. But try to go from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200 without cropping to less than 1920, then having to upscale. It's clear that you lose quality from literally less starting data.
The Microsoft Evil Empire wants to remind us not to underestimate the power of Moe!!!
Poor Hikaru, the Evil Empire only considers her as disposable moe trash...
Someone should tell Microsoft an OS-tan is for life, not just for Christmas.
they need to stand by their moe mascots other wise people won't take them cereal anymore
I'll give moe trash a home when they get thrown out.
MOECROSOFT~~~
"...so much disposable moe trash"
I think I felt something there.
Haha, Mio is disposable moe trash?
Lets hope the K-ON! fans didn't see click that moe trash link. xD
Ironically enough, I recently(as in last night) just dug out my old Nanami Theme...
Poor Nanami, not getting enough love lately.
Is there anywhere I can get the Hikaru widget in english? Or some way I can install it on my non japanese pc?
Nanami will always have a place in my heart.
Don't cry, Hikaru-chan
*pats her on her head*
I'll take you home with me.
MOE~4LIFE!!!
*pulls out a couple of uzis from under his pyramid helmet and fires them around randomly*
a naruto headband?
For some reason I imagined you wearing enormous glasses, a headband, and some weird beat up overcoat >.>
Don't fuck wit Twintails!
Silverlight really is impressive when they put the effort into it.
The Chinese olympics where even more impressive because of the insane amount of events that where streamed flawlessly through silverlight with multiple angles and "tivo like" controls.
No buffering or the like either. Few other instances where silverlight really blows away alternatives, but isn't used often for whatever reason.
Kinect might do better if it had moe mascot not a rectangle face http://brutalgamer.com/2010/11/04/meet-kinects-mascot/
It's because no self-respecting moe girl would want to be associated with it.
Ture, they already got seiyuus promoting it.
That still doesn't guarantee anything except for a few interesting CMs
Who is this bitch?
Microsoft Wins Christmas.
Waiting for people to rage at Artefact for saying Mio is disposable. Oh wait... That's the truth huh.
Aww~ She's a cutie! I love wallpaper of the chibi with the usagi plushie. X3
Nanami-Chan :(
I am disappoint at lack of Nanami.
Delicious waki-exposure...