Return of the ’70s Weirdos

Classic! Everyone has seen that awful 1970's era Microsoft photo, well, Newsweek has got everyone from that picture to come back for a new group shot. Predictably, they're a lot less ... um ... unattractive than they used to be. :) That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened. LOL. Wow.

Paul Thurrott

June 22, 2008

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Classic! Everyone has seen that awful 1970's era Microsoft photo, well, Newsweek has got everyone from that picture to come back for a new group shot. Predictably, they're a lot less ... um ... unattractive than they used to be. :)

That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.

LOL. Wow.

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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