[Gortef]

Yep. You read right.

Some of you might have heard of the fan made OS -Tans (mascots for the operating systems).
Microsoft has actually made several official mascots already. Madobe Nanami for Windows 7 and Madobe Yuu & Ai for Windows 8 -to name a few.

Well now IE got one too.
Inori Aizawa.



http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5073934/microsofts-anime-inspired-internet-explorer-ad-is-its-best-yet
They actually made a ~2min anime for her aswell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o
And a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/internetexplorertan

I gotta admit, the 2min thingie was full of clishés but still thought it was fun
And the character herself is kind of cute.

[Spoon]

Cute

But instead of fighting random robots I would rather see her do battle with firefox and chrome-tan 

[Ghostavo]

I'm waiting for other browsers to follow suit, then we can have a super sentai show.

Also, season 1?

[Gortef]

Also, season 1?

Yea that "Season 1" mark brings questions... hopefully it means that they're gonna make some more animated features and/or other material. I wouldn't mind.

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[headdie]

I'm waiting for other browsers to follow suit, then we can have a super sentai show.

Also, season 1?

firefox is already most of the way there with it's logo, Google could easily adapt its logo into something robotic.  just leaves opera really lol

edit

I really want that backing track

[Phantom Hoover]

chrome-tan is a completely unanthropomorphic chrome logo (the spherical version, not the recent stylised ones)

would watch

[NeonShivan]

hmm...the video was epic but the comments made my night.

[MP-Ryan]

Here I read the thread title and thought it was likely a dodo bird.

[Grizzly]

I thought it would be an paperclip.

[Lorric]

This is all so very very far away from what I would have expected.

[Ghostavo]

Anyone tried to install this yet?

Apart from setting IE's homepage to www.internetexplorertan.com/home/ I can't seem to find any difference.

[Gortef]

Anyone tried to install this yet?

Apart from setting IE's homepage to www.internetexplorertan.com/home/ I can't seem to find any difference.

Well so far there isn't much more difference. Time will tell if they will make a more complete theme with voices, if at all.

[S-99]

This has the possibility of becoming a hentai. I don't think you'd see the linux penguin ****ing the blonde IE girl. But, you'd probably see an animated bill gates go at it.

[Flak]

rule 34 business again? I guess I know, but I really don't want to know, need another dose of brain bleach

[BloodEagle]

This has the possibility of becoming a hentai. I don't think you'd see the linux penguin ****ing the blonde IE girl. But, you'd probably see an animated bill gates go at it.

There's probably already a website dedicated to that.

[Gortef]

Well looks like someone at Pixiv was already "hard" at work for that, it wasn't even tagged as 18+ work.
Other than that she has had mainly cute fanart so far, which is nice. Not that many yet ofcourse.

[Rodo]

I've seen everything.
The end is near.

[Gortef]

Here I read the thread title and thought it was likely a dodo bird.

I thought it would be an paperclip.

This is all so very very far away from what I would have expected.

Isn't it nice to be (positively perhaps) surprised?

In all honesty though, I've been aware of their other mascots for a long time but this did surprise me too.
Just keep 'em coming MS, there's not enough cute and fluffiness in the world yet.

[Lorric]

Positive surprises are lovely.

But this is kind of a strange surprise. Not good or bad. Just unexpected.

[Flak]

Maybe Firefox will get a new fox girl mascot