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Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos

Posted by kdawson on from the kodachrome-moments dept.

theodp writes "On the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque to Seattle in 1978, a famous photo was taken (in a shopping mall no less) of the original Microsoft team, looking mighty sharp in their '70s outfits. Almost 30 years later, as Bill Gates prepares to depart from Microsoft, the group (looking older, but better) reconvened for a retake."

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  1. Thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the photo that I need for when time travel is invented, so windows can be prevented from happening.

    1. Re:Thank you by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary notation and those who call you all the time with "windows questions".

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  2. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    which guy had a sex change?

    1. Re:So... by Kingrames · · Score: 2, Funny

      her name is Chaire.

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  3. Re:11/12 by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    well working making a new company having it grow to such a large level tends to put extra age on some people. Heck look at the guy in the middle in the before and after pic. Before he was a young guy and the other picture he is a older lady, that looks more like a traditional grandmother image.

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  4. My IT Dept by Twide · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's odd.. my very own IT department looks much more like that 70's photo than the current one..

  5. Time travel by owlman17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, please send the second terminator. I am still typing this on Windows, so apparently, the mission failed.

  6. THE GOGGLES by dwalsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    etc.

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  7. Gates on the desk by tobiasly · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were also gonna go back and recapture that famous 1983 photo of Gates laying across the desk all sultry-like, but he broke a hip trying to strike his pose...

  8. Re:Epitome by yuriyg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for pointing this out, I noticed that as well and started to suspect there was a Wachowski brothers thing going on.

  9. I still say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    goatse is more pleasant to look at