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Background, left hand side (clockwise from top left): Windows 98SE (in the box), Windows 95 (wearing kimono), Symantec Antivirus (male), Windows 2000 (in front of Symantec), Windows Server 2003 (fish outfit, attacked by black cat), Windows 98 (uncommon form but close to usual appearance), Windows XP (holding her skirt down).

Background, right hand side: Windows 3.1 and DOS (neither unusual representation is the "official" os-tan for each).

Foreground: Windows CE (left, fairy in light green outfit with USB wand), Windows ME (right, green hair, levitated by CE).

Group image of the OS-tans, used under fair use. Artists: Sorenarini Toshiaki (illustration and finish) background Sore-Aki.

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2chan [1] Alternate version of image with copyright information included in Japanese text

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To illustrate the object in question
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On the English-language Wikipedia ([2]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([3]),

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Fair use rationale:

Being used to illustrate the Wikipedia article OS-tan, where no suitable alternative can be found. (Although it is encouraged that a more reasonable or agreeable solution be found in the near future.)
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