Microsoft to push cool factor with retro-inspired clothing line

It's actually kind of amazing how much dough Microsoft has spent over the past little while in an attempt to polish its image in the minds of the general populace, and as if those "I'm proud to be a PC" and completely incomprehensible Gates / Seinfeld spots weren't enough, the Redmond-based outfit is about to roll out its own clothing line (dubbed "Softwear") this month. And no, we're not kidding. Not even a little. Microsoft has purchased the assistance of Crispin Porter & Bogusky in order to ensure the results are actually desirable, and it has also hired rapper Common as a spokesman. We can't definitively say the shirt you see above is as fly as Pharrell's Gizmondo Enzo tee, but we'd rock it. We'd rock it hard.

[Via Boy Genius Report]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 7:03PM]

Does the back say "Dirty Operating System?"

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 11th 2008 10:52AM]

Must be the lamest t-shirt ever. Dos, or Qdos, was made by Seattle Computer products and originally written as a clone of CP/M. The first thing that happened after IBM licensed it was that IBM had to clean out thousands of bugs that Microsoft hadnt bothered to fix.

Dos was just a complete ripoff of CP/M.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 16th 2008 9:29AM]

I always hated MS-DOS, but this does bring back fond memories of green CRTs and floppies. Its about time MS got with the program.