"I can take or leave some of the things that Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 these days, but I do usually enjoy the company's yearly limited-time holiday sweater releases. Usually crafted around a specific image or product from the company's '90s-and-early-2000s heyday-2022's sweater was Clippy themed, and 2023's was just the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper in sweater form-the sweaters usually hit the exact combination of dorky/cute/recognizable that makes for a good holiday party conversation starter."
"Microsoft is reviving the tradition for 2025 after taking a year off, and the design for this year's flagship $80 sweater is mostly in line with what the company has done in past years. The 2025 "Artifact Holiday Sweater" revives multiple pixelated icons that Windows 3.1-to-XP users will recognize, including Notepad, Reversi, Paint, MS-DOS, Internet Explorer, and even the MSN butterfly logo. Clippy is, once again, front and center, looking happy to be included."
Microsoft is reviving its holiday sweater tradition for 2025 after a one-year hiatus, offering an $80 'Artifact Holiday Sweater' as the flagship design. The sweater features multiple pixelated icons familiar to Windows 3.1-to-XP users, including Notepad, Reversi, Paint, MS-DOS, Internet Explorer, and the MSN butterfly logo, with Clippy featured prominently. Modern Microsoft-related imagery also appears, such as a sunglasses emoji, a '50' rendered like the classic flying Windows icon to mark the company's 50th anniversary, and a Minecraft Creeper face. A pixelated monochrome icon for the Copilot AI assistant appears on the right sleeve, which has drawn criticism.
Read at Ars Technica
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