Microsoft’s ugly sweaters return with Clippy, Xbox, and Zune brown options

Microsoft is bringing backmost its disfigured sweaters for the vacation season. After taking a interruption for 2024, the institution has an “Artifact” vacation sweater with tons of retro iconography, an adjacent uglier Zune brownish option, and adjacent a green Xbox version.

Clippy was the prima of Microsoft’s ugly sweater successful 2022, and the Artifact enactment this twelvemonth puts the paperclip astatine the center, surrounded by MSN, Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, MS-DOS, and plentifulness of Windows logos. The Zune brownish vacation sweater has a play fastener that I truly anticipation lights thing up. Both the Artifact and Zune sweaters are disposable for $79.95, and the Xbox sweater tin beryllium pre-ordered for $59.95.

Microsoft archetypal started sending retired disfigured sweaters to Windows fans successful 2018, and past sold them to customers from 2020 onwards. For immoderate crushed the bundle shaper didn’t vessel an disfigured sweater successful 2024, but this year’s sweaters tin beryllium purchased done Microsoft’s online institution store oregon its ceramic and mortar mentation successful Redmond, Washington. Microsoft volition besides person its vacation sweaters disposable astatine its Microsoft store (experience center) successful New York City.