turg's Journal: Who are these three guys pictured on the Windows Vista DVD?

Some intrepid geek has found a tiny photo of three guys in the hologram on the surface of the Windows Vista DVD. How widespread is this? (Is it on your copy of the DVD?) Who are these men?

Its the Chief Vista Architects

[Shadow Wrought]

Larry, Moe, and Curly are their nom de plumes...

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[nizo]

No way; they all have too much hair for one to be Curly. Now Moe on the other hand...

Go look at my guess and tell me what you think :-)

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[account_deleted]

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hold on...

[naoursla]

I'll try and find out and let you know if it isn't a secret.

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[naoursla]

It looks like we are not talking about it.

These are some interesting and related articles:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1614 1 [networkworld.com]

http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/0 2/autumn200702?printable=true&currentPage=all [vanityfair.com]

My guess

[nizo]

The three lawyers responsible for coming up with the idea of spending vast amounts of money putting flashy expensive holograms on a disk that will be copied and sold anyway.

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[Otter]

I was thinking it's three nerds who are about to be fired for unauthorized easter egging.

Moo

[Chacham]

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1614 1 [networkworld.com]

http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/microsoft//A> says "Apparently, the three guys are real programmers from the Microsoft campus.". [nytimes.com]

Personally, i thought it was The Three Faces of Eve [imdb.com]-il.

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[Tet]

Just curious... have you ever thought of using a meaningful subject line for your posts?

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[Chacham]

Why would a comment need a subject line?

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[NeMon'ess]

For when you comment in different places in a front page story and want to more easily track which post is what from this screen. Not that you do that much anymore. [slashdot.org]

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[Chacham]

For when you comment in different places in a front page story and want to more easily track which post is what

That is useless. For two reasons.

1) It's rare that one posts more than one parent comment to a story.
2) All follow-up comments have the same title anyway.

BTW, i wondered [slashdot.org] about comment titles some time ago. I really don't see a reason for them, especially because they are written before [slashdot.org] the comment itself.

Not that you do that much anymore.

Yep, i haven't even read the front page in over a month [slashdot.org].

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[turg]

Re: the NYT link. Looks like a story about Microsoft that happens to contain the phrase "three guys" but I'm not seeing anything that links it to this question.

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[Chacham]

Looks like you're correct. I was looking so hard that i provided context on my own. :P

Answer on the frontpage

[naoursla]

There is a better answer on the front page. I started one of the larger internal threads talking about this, and I only did it because of your question. The world revolves around you. Enjoy.

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[turg]

Got a link? I'm not seeing it on the front page nor in your past comments.

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[naoursla]

Nerdy Photo in Vista DVDs Thwarts Disk Pirates [slashdot.org]

It still doesn't answer *who* the guys are, unfortunately.