XP-tan

Saseko’s hungry for more RAM!

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XP-tan
Character Information
Common Names	XP, Saseko
Other Names	XP-chan, XP Pro, Windows Experience, Whistler
Appearance
Height	est. 165-175 cm (5 ft 5-9 in)
Hair Color	Black (officially), sometimes brown or dark blue
Eye Color	Blue or dark gray
Design
Creator	XP Kaki-Aki / Nac
First Appearance	2004
Origin	Futaba Channel
Technical Information
System Personified	Windows XP Professional
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Debut	2001-10-21
Latest release	Service Pack 3 (2008-04-21)

Character Details

General

XP-tan is a dark-haired girl with ribbons in her hair and an XP hair ornament worn on the left side (infrequently, she is depicted with ornaments on both sides). As Windows XP was originally criticized for bloating a system and being very pretty without being equally as useful, XP-tan wears tight clothing and has large breasts. An early alternate outfit was especially skimpy, wearing a blue miniskirt, high-heeled shoes, and a midriff-bearing tube top with "XP" on the front. She usually dresses in a blue-and-white stylized schoolgirl outfit with ribbons and detached sleeves for decoration.

Also, as Windows XP used up large amounts of memory for its time, XP-tan is often seen eating or holding an empty bowl labeled "Memory".

Around 2014 there was a surge of art of XP-tan in observation of Windows XP's extended support being ended by Microsoft on April 8th, 2014. Despite this Windows XP still occasionally received security patches, with the last one being in May 2019.

Early Characterization

When the OS-tan phenomenon was in its early stages, XP was at the time the current Windows OS, and was heavily criticized. XP-tan's personality is often portrayed as shallow and promiscuous; the latter may reference not just the eye candy interface, but also the large number of security exploits XP had early in its lifetime. There is a strip where 2K-tan derides XP-tan and calls her an "Activation Whore" since XP required activation over the phone or internet to set up; this was a change in Windows that was widely criticized at the time. She generally fills the role in the manga as the typical eye candy character, but alternate interpretations may be starting to change this.

Shift in Characterization

The portrayal of XP-tan as a shallow piece of bloated eye candy seems to have changed ever since the debut of Windows Vista, its much higher hardware requirements and even fancier interface. In hindsight, XP had very high requirements for its time, but nowadays is able to run well on low-end computers, and XP's Luna GUI is simple-looking compared to Vista's and 7's Aero. While XP-tan may still be portrayed as dense and a big eater, she's now more likely to be seen as more reliable, dependable and practical than she ever was before.

Depictions

Deja Vu Works

In Deja Vu's doujins, she is seen as a somewhat dense but undeniably beautiful and envied character, easily compared to Mikuru Asahina from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu. She has had the most hentai scenes out of any of the OSes, much due to her large breasts, often drawn comically huge. However, her characteristically large breasts are envied by most other characters.

Usage Rights

The designer and owner of XP-tan has put out usage guidelines for her that translate to the following:

Regarding general personal activities that do not go through commercial sales channels (such as the production of derivative works such as doujinshi and non-commercial websites),

Regarding the use of 4 characters: "XP-tan", "Dr. Norton", "Buster", and "DOS Prompt"

We declare that we will not impose any restrictions or restrictions (you are free to use it as you please).

Please note that we do not grant any license to Softbank Publishing Corp. to use the above characters.

Trivia

• XP-tan's nickname, Saseko (させこ), derives from the X and P keys on a QWERTY keyboard being in the same places as the kana for sa (さ) and se (せ), respectively, on a Japanese keyboard; -ko (～子/～こ) is a common suffix in Japanese women's and girls' names.

See also

• List of OS-tans
• Windows-tans
• XP Family
• Gallery Link

External Links

• Her entry on @Wiki
• Her entry on Pixiv Encyclopedia
• Her entry on Seesawiki
• OS-tan.moe wiki page for her