Microsoft will promote you a $60 T-shirt with the Windows XP background

Microsoft is launching a brand new “Hardwear” clothes assortment that features a Windows XP T-shirt. If you’ve at all times needed to wander the streets with the Windows XP bliss wallpaper strapped to your again, now could be your time. The well-known blue sky and inexperienced hill are emblazoned on a mustard or black tee, available for $60.

The nine-piece collection of T-shirts, hats, sweats, jackets, and pants is a part of a collaboration between Supervsn founder Gavin Mathieu and Microsoft. It’s Microsoft’s first capsule assortment of clothes and merchandise, and the software program maker clearly needed to create a classy nerd vibe with its collaboration.

“The collection is reflective of the Normcore style, a lifestyle aesthetic that puts the focus on individuals and not on the clothing they wear,” explains Amanda O’Neal, director of multicultural and social communications at Microsoft. “Every piece is intentional, and there is meaning behind each item in Hardwear.”

The normcore vary additionally contains an MS Paint T-shirt that mimics the unique coloration palette of the app and a “Hardwear” hat with Microsoft’s Nineteen Nineties emblem colorings.

This isn’t Microsoft’s first experiment with clothes, although. Microsoft has been promoting Xbox-branded clothes for years, and the corporate additionally sells a spread of clothes at its firm retailer. Microsoft even began promoting its ugly Windows sweaters in 2020, with MS Paint, Windows XP, Windows 95, and Minesweeper ones obtainable beforehand.