Microsoft Embeds Nerds in their Vista DVDs

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Remember the old days, when programmers would get their names in the About tab, or else embed an Easter Egg in their program? But that’s so old-school. It appears that some enterprising Microsoft employees have managed to embed their image onto the hologram that’s on the Windows Vista Business DVD.

Apparently a blogger named Kwisatz has uncovered a “secret” photo embedded into the hologram that encompasses the Windows Vista Business DVD. This being Microsoft, the photo naturally depicts three total nerds, grinning excessively at their own cleverness. Source: enGadget

We Say: I’d like to link the original blogger’s page, but it’s in Spanish. Now, enGadget didn’t have a Vista Business DVD … but I did. However, I also need reading glasses, and even with those, I can’t see close enough to make it out. But I can see something there. Maybe someone with better (younger?) eyes can make it out.

Updated: Well, it wasn’t our imagination, but it wasn’t even an Easter Egg, though for the 3 who now have their pictures all over the world, it serves the same purpose. From Microsoft’s Windows Vista blog “The photo displays members of the team who worked on the Windows Vista DVD hologram design. Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Team designed a counterfeit-resistant digital “watermark” for the non-encoded surface of Windows Vista DVDs. The photo in question is only one of multiple images contained in the hologram design, all of whose inclusion serves to make it more difficult to replicate a Windows Vista DVD.”