OS-tans are moe anthropomorphic personifications of popular operating systems, originating on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. The designs of the...

Microsoft-related OS-tans, other software and websites have been anthropomorphized as well. For example, Wikipedia has its own "Wikipe-tan", while Mozilla...

(video game) NFL 2K (video game) MLB 2K NBA 2K NHL 2K NFL 2K WWE 2K 2K-tan, see OS-tan, Japanese Internet meme Chaparral 2K, see Chaparral Cars was a United...

been used. However, all of these characters were inspired by the original OS-tans, personified operating systems that had their origins on Futaba Channel...

which was later approved by Microsoft and used by them for promotion. OS-tan Inori Aizawa ugmbbc (September 28, 2010). "微软台湾发布Silverlight动画形象 – 藍澤光 MM"...

anthropomorphisms are often labeled as -tan, e.g., the commercial mascot Habanero-tan, the manga figure Afghanis-tan or the OS-tans representing operating systems...

Ostan may refer to: OS-tan, Internet personifications of operating systems Ostan (Geography), Iranian name for "province" Ostan or Óstán, Irish word for...

Princess). Nana Mizuki voices Microsoft's Japanese Windows 7 unofficial "OS-tan" mascot, Nanami Madobe. The mascot's name uses some wordplay on Mizuki's...

HarmonyOS (HMOS) (Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng) is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches...

characters, some of which have spread to western internet culture such as the OS-tans meme.[citation needed] Several characters that appear on Futaba Channel...