Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Beyond the Border~ => Sara's Audio-Visual Import-Overflow Retail => Topic started by: helvetica on September 29, 2010, 07:10:49 PM
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http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/
Funny how Taiwan is far more weeaboo than even Japan. Also she's cute :3c
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I love you, Taiwan~
So cute.
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158cm and 42kg?!?!?! Not with that rack she ain't.
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Silverlight. Who even uses that?
I guess Outlook-tan will be next or paperclip moe.
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She needs a magical staff.
Other than that, I approve~! b^_^d The outfit is so cute, and I could really see her fighting the evil forces of... Um... Whatever it is a web application would find evil, I guess (malware and viruses?).
...I would totally watch the hell out of a Magical Girl Silverlight-tan anime, really. >.>
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Notice how nobody ever makes male mascots :V
...Actually, why not? I don't get it :/
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IN B4 SHOTA OUTLOOK EXPRESS
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Silverlight. Who even uses that?
Oh no you didn't :derp:
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http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/collection.htm
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/563/img0757c.jpg
New desktop backgrounds ahoy!
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I think it's pretty awesome that she's an official Microsoft construct.
I wonder what Bill thinks.
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Windows 7-tan is also adorable. I find it funny that Microsoft has pretty much embraced the whole OS-tan movement and are even using it for their marketing gimmicks now.
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I wonder what Bill thinks.
Gates said he'll get to you on that after he's finished driving his gold plated car. I kind of want to know this too.
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hey TSO why do you like everything I like?
I hate you.
158cm and 42kg?!?!?! Not with that rack she ain't.
her hair is heavy and so is her hardware.
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(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5531/windows7burger1.th.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/windows7burger1.jpg/)
Why is Microsoft marketing in Asia so awesome?
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I like the
zettai ryouiki art style.
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Funny how Taiwan is far more weeaboo than even Japan. Also she's cute :3c
Taiwan is probably the only place apart from Japan that actually holds dedicated Touhou conventions ala Reitaisai, now if that isn't special I don't know what is.
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Why is Microsoft marketing in Asia so awesome?
Yes, why? Especially when their marketing in America is so amateurish and wince-inducingly shitty. Remember the Gates/Seinfeld (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjNJZpRtj8) commercials? Do I even need to bring up the horror that is the Songsmith commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXG2uKNLIw)? And yet in Asia, they create anime characters.
I'm not an expert on PR, but my guess is that Microsoft, like other ginormous corporations, contracts advertising firms and takes their word for it with regards to what will "work" and what won't. Why their Asian advertising agents are so savvy and their North American counterparts are so utterly clueless is beyond me.
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It makes sense that North American advertisers don't know how to advertise, because the North American consumer base, by and large, doesn't know what it wants. >_>
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I like the zettai ryouiki art style.
IMHO her outfit is extremely cute. Man I don't get how Microsoft's advertising team is so inconsistent. Their Windows 7 campaign in Japan/Asia was brilliant (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-30/windows-7-gets-anime-ad-with-nanami-madobe-mascot friggen Nana Mizuki to voice an OS theme? :o). And now the Silverlight thing for their annual tech conference in Taiwan.
But then you look at how AWFUL the Windows 7 advertisements were here (lol WINDOWS 7 WAS MY IDEA and the awful Seinfeld ones), as well as the countless PR gaffs MS has done with the 360 in Japan. Seriously, if it weren't for MS Japan the 360 would have crushed the PS3.
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(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5531/windows7burger1.th.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/windows7burger1.jpg/)
Why is Microsoft marketing in Asia so awesome?
The bun is your system resources.
The meat is windows 7.
The jawlock is pain.
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Man all my system sounds are Mizuki Nana telling me politely and moe-ly what's going on
Doesn't get much better than that
Silverlight-tan is beyond adorable too
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I could really see her fighting the evil forces of... Um... Whatever it is a web application would find evil, I guess (malware and viruses?).
She actually fights the evil forces of non-Micro$oft products.
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I remember seeing one of the official 7-tan commercials. Somehow, animated moe-posturing managed to come off as wooden and forced. I wasn't particularly interested in any of the specific "this is why 7 is awesome" things it highlighted either.
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http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/755959/2girls-7-aizawa_hikaru-blonde_hair-blue_eyes-blue_ it has begun
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Good.
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I won't be impressed until we start seeing some hot OS-on-OS action. I'm envisioning Windows 7-tan dominating Vista-tan, or the both of them abusing XP-tan (because she has such poor defenses, you see).