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Niko is a Japanese Windows modder and OS Mockups creator that started her first Windows mod on 2022, as a unnamed Windows 2000 mod, but she wasn't publicly revealed until 2023 when she made the Windows XP Unity account on July 1, 2023 along with her modding server being started by her friends before she made her Windows XP Unity account before that day. 
She's well known for her Windows XP mod named Windows XP Aero, which is a mod based on Windows XP which it aims to bring Aero design language from Windows Vista era and adding Vista, Longhorn and scrapped Windows XP Unity features to Windows XP, while keeping the Windows XP layout. She inspired to make this mod from fusoxide's Windows XP logon concept in Vista style. 
== History ==
=== 2022 ===
Her interest in technology started in this year, and she made a untitled Windows 2000 mod. She started to watch RDesign and she was inspired by him to do stuff like creating mockups and graphic design. This led into her joining the OSM and tech scene.
=== 2023 ===
Not much is known about her, on July 1, 2023, Niko started to create an email and account because she was developing Windows XP Unity, she also made a YouTube channel. RDesign helps her in her mod like the theme and logo what he made. She was in her server alone until August 16, 2023, which FireCube joined her server, and then he left after, then he came back in August 15, 2023. On August 16, 2023, FireCube asked Niko if she wants a dedicated channel for her Windows XP Unity mod. She accepted his decision to make a Windows XP Unity channel in this day, and he'll promote in X (formerly Twitter) which his promotion exploded Rectify11, a unnamed mod (?) and Project2K into being well known. FireCube asked what's about this Windows XP Unity mod is actually about, after this, he asked who are all the people working in this project. Niko said that she's managing the mod with several people. FireCube said that she gives him a list of people to do a background check, to make sure no one affiliated is bad. Other stuff reasoning are unknown. On August 17, 2023, Niko joined Windows Customization Hub, and she finally got a Windows XP Unity channel in the server. This led to join modding related stuff, then she gets more open to Windows stuff. She joined several tech communities. She started to develop Windows XP Epsilon Edition in September 4, 2023, which the first build got released on October 4, 2023. She was struggling with Windows XP Unity development, until at some point on December 19, 2023, she got tired of it, nobody is helping and she canceled the mod. She rebranded her channel to Niko OneShot, and she makes videos about her other mods besides from this one. 
=== 2024 ===
On January 1, 2024, Niko was working with the second beta of Windows Vista Retrophase. She downloaded Windows 2000 for her mod Project '97. After this day, she released the second beta of Vista Retrophase. 
On January 6, 2024, she released a beta version of the 2.0 version of Windows XP Epsilon Edition Extras Pack, due to GMM is busy. 
On January 11, 2024, Niko released the first release candidate of Windows XP Aero, in the same day, she archived the 1.0.1 version of Windows XP Unity Extras Pack. Niko was originally supposed to release Ultimate Extras for Windows XP Aero when it reaches RTM, but she changed her mind and released the Ultimate Extras two days later after its RC release. 
On January 16, 2024, she done announcements for said mods. She fixed a mislabel with Windows XP Epsilon Edition, she added Windows Aviro (a Windows 7 mod which it resembles GMM's AWTL Windows 11), scrapped her reworked version of someone's mod Windows Vista7, decided the future with Windows Vista Retrophase due to lack of feedback and motivation, she sent suggestions to her Windows XP mod. In the same day, she released the second release candidate version of Windows XP Aero. Which is finally close reaching to RTM. This Release Candidate 2 version has been reviewed by Russian Windows YouTuber Daniel Mysilvets instead of RTM, probably he did a mistake downloading it instead of the RTM. 
On January 22, 2024, Windows XP Aero got completed as a operating system, and she got more popularity because of said mod, RTM has been released.
On a unknown February day, she gave idea to RDesign which is named Windows Akaroa, dated in 2008 
On February 24, 2024, she joined WHwNRV Absolute Server. She publicly joined the OSM community. After that, her interest on OSM has increased due to her sending a idea what she made dating in 1999, to SectorWire. 
On February 28, 2024, she created her new YouTube channel and uploaded her first OSM video. Then she started to join more OSM servers.
== Creations ==
=== Windows mods ===
==== Based on Windows 2000 ====
* Project '97
==== Based on Windows XP ====
* Windows XP Aero
* Windows XP Epsilon Edition
* Windows MESE (Second Edition) 
==== Based on Windows Server 2003 ====
* Windows XP Unity (canceled)
* Windows for Toilets 2004 (joke mod, based on MondySpartan's April Fools 2023(?) concept) (canceled)
==== Based on Windows Vista ====
* Windows Vista Retrophase (canceled, and may revive soon)
* Windows Tundra (based on GMM's AWTL Windows 9)
==== Based on Windows 7 ====
* Windows Aviro (based on GMM's AWTL Windows 11; may be not related to his mockup, but it makes a coincidence)
* Windows 7 Retrophase (based on the Windows 7 Vision concept)
==== Based on Windows 8.1 ====
* Windows Bluish (based on GMM's AWTL Windows 12)
==== Based on Windows 10 ====
* Project 9879 (scrapped Windows 10 RTM mod)
==== Based on Windows 11 ====
* Windows 11 Delta
=== Operating System Mockups ===
Episode number	Release date 	Notes
1 	February 28, 2024	Debut episode.
2 	March 7, 2024 	Made on Winner7XP's birthday
== Trivia ==
* The first Windows mod that it got more popularity is Windows XP Aero.
** Due to this, Niko have mostly Russian audience, despite she's Japanese.
* Her Windows MESE mod video has been reviewed by Indonesian YouTuber Everything Windows, it was done in request.
* She's very rare as a female WNRer, others are VistaIroha, Kyle Broflovski (now non-binary), Winner7XP, maple bloom, and Ro.
** If she makes NROS aswell, then she's a very rare OS mockuper aswell after KozueSakakibara.
** She's a very rare female Windows modder. Somehow she got popular due to Windows XP Aero existance.
* She owns two channels: NikoOSM and Niko OneShot.
* She have more mod knowledge on Windows 2000/XP/2003.
* She was named under the Windows 8 OS-tan, Madobe Ai, but it's still used.
** She can be still named after the character from game OneShot, Niko. Name is still used at its day.
** She's named after the character from Paper Lily, Lacie.
* She uses paint.net to create graphics, and sometimes she uses Figma.
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