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Microsoft is reporting a huge increase in the sales of their latest edition of Windows.
According to RocketNews 24, Microsoft CEO Chief Executive Steve Ballmer reported that Windows 8 has been selling at a much faster rate than Windows 7, which up until Friday, was Microsoft’s best-selling Windows version to date. There also might be a pretty simple reason behind it all.
And despite some customer complaints over limited touch-screen capabilities, two special edition versions of the software — each of which feature a different cute anime chick, or ‘moe’ mascot girl, on the cover — are beginning to sell like hotcakes. Yuu Madobe and Ai Madobe, the two ‘moe’ sisters, each come with their own custom wallpaper and different ‘voices’ carrying start-up instructions and advice. There’s even more limited packages, with more moe ‘features’, available only in certain manga-popular shopping districts in Tokyo.
The other versions without the moe girls aren’t selling nearly as well, which proves our theory that even nukes would sell in Japan if they had cute anime broads on them (even their army jets now have classic anime moes painted on their noses). They’re going for about $200 over here.
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Jeff Nau is a main contributor to the Jace Hall Show covering pop culture and music trends in the nerd community. He has contributed to San Diego City Beat, 944, and Ill Literature, amongst others, and spends his spare time working as an artist and photographer.

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