nostalgia marketing

Microsoft’s holiday knitwear has become an unlikely cultural litmus test for everything the company stands for — and, in a small but amusing turn, it has apparently reduced one newborn to tears. The Register’s cheeky report that a reader who won the 2025 “Artifact” sweater was wearing it when...

Microsoft’s holiday merch has leaned into nostalgia for years, but the 2025 drop is the most explicit throwback yet: three new “ugly” sweaters — the icon-packed Artifact sweater, a Zune-brown variant, and an Xbox green edition — released as part of Microsoft’s ongoing 50th‑anniversary...

Microsoft’s surprise anniversary drop — a limited-edition pair of Windows XP–themed Crocs — has already become a viral grail piece, launching as an employee-exclusive preorder at a reported price of $80 with a public release reportedly planned by Microsoft. daper is one of the most culturally...

Few product launches have captured the collective nostalgia and eye-rolling amusement of the tech community quite like Microsoft's foray into limited edition XP-themed Crocs. Images surfacing from internal company channels fuel speculation that Microsoft, following its recent trend of quirky...

For Windows enthusiasts and tech observers who monitor the rapid-fire evolution of Microsoft’s flagship operating system via the Windows Insider program, discovering experimental features—and occasional oddities—is par for the course. In a twist that has Windows nostalgic and Mac fans alike...

I spent a good chunk of the recent long weekend plowing through Call of Duty—not solely because the adrenaline of narrowly escaping digital demise is preferable to, say, mowing the lawn, but because there's never a dull moment in this ever-morphing, sometimes confounding shooter universe. Yet...