![]() ![]() The cult popularity of the OS-tan characters led to Microsoft Japan creating Madobe Nanami, an official OS-tan, as a spokesperson for Windows 7. Afterwards, several more Windows OS-tans were made, and eventually the premise exploded to making moe versions of almost every OS or popular piece of hardware in existence. Originally, the first OS-Tan was Windows ME-tan, who was drawn as a cute Idiot Haired Cute Clumsy Girl to represent how the actual Windows ME was highly unstable. The -tan is a deliberate mistranslation of the -chan suffix, as it's supposed to sound like something said by a small child (hence evoking cuteness). In fact, web browsers, antivirus programs, and other applications have gotten similiar treatment. The OS-tan (short for Operating System-tan) is a Moe Anthropomorphism of various Windows operating systems (or at least that's how it started out), and is now a common feature on the Japanese Futaba Channel (where they originated).
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