OS-tan
A small internet phenomenon on various anime and manga image boards, the OS-tan (OS for Operating System, and -tan as an overly cute Japanese honorific for a person) or simply "OS Girls" are the personification of several OSes, most famously Windows, by various amateur Japanese artists. A pure fan creation, the appearance of each character is generally consistent among artists. OSes are always portrayed as women, the Windows girls usually as sisters.OSX, Linux, and Lindows girls have also shown up on the internet, although some non-OS male characters exist for programs and hardware. Norton Antivirus usually portrayed as a creepy looking, possibly lecherous old doctor
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XP is a sexy, dark-haired girl wearing the XP logo as a hair ribbon. As XP is sometimes criticized for bloating a system and being very pretty without equally as useful, XP-san wears very little and has large breasts.
The more cutesy personification of the much maligned and infamously unreliable Windows ME OS, ME-tan appearance rarely varies and was likely the first created (by who?) She has green hair in long pigtails and wears a maid outfit with a badge on the front in the spirit of the Windows yellow error icon. ME-tan is a hard worker and always wants to help but predictably fails at everything she tries to do, often literally crashing and irritating her sisters. In spite of, or perhaps due to, her pitiful plight the clumsy ME-tan is one of the most beloved OS girls.
A few variants exist, but she is typically an intelligent, professional, reserved looking woman with short blue hair, glasses, and odd hairclips that look like cat ears. Her outfit resembles a swimsuit suggesting the windows logo colors, and she wears a long coat. This is thought to reflect the agreement Windows 2000 is the most stable and dependable system.
Many variants exist, although 95 often appears as a gentle looking woman in a kimono.XP-san
ME-tan
2k-chan
98 & 95