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1. TheOne

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 8:07 am

   Interesting….

2. Ditto

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 8:12 am

   Well, Windows XP was indeed popular…

3. iSimx

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 8:23 am

   “Why go forward in technology when you can backwards!”

4. SantiagoSoul

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 8:44 am

   Jajaaa! Igual, no creo que sea una metida de pata, lo hicieron a propósito, saben que XP es el más usado.

5. someone

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am

   Can’t wait for some awesome coverage tomorrow. Any Windows 7-specific events planned for tomorrow?

6. Devmonster

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am

   I guess it’s featuring Virtualization they’re talking about. if you’d notice, the Start menu isn’t flushed at the bottom. But it’s a funny pic.

7. Steve Sinchak

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am

   Nice Catch!

8. Yert

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am

   They wouldn’t have made this mistake if they had only read my new book, “The Hazards of Using Stock Photography: When Long Zheng Strikes”!

   

9. anonymuos

   Oct 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

   You know XP completed exactly 7 years on October 25 2008. So yes, XP=7.

10. Rahul Kumar

    Oct 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    maybe there not posting the official pictures of Windows 7, for press purposes and dont want to leak anything out for tomorrows major announcements? thats my view on it. and even if that was the reason, i dont get why they wouldnt put vista. xp is the best-selling version of windows so maybe thats it.

11. Jemm

    Oct 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Many people move from Vista to XP, so maybe there is some logic

12. techcastonni

    Oct 27th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    Microsoft use a catalogue of press and marketing images that are available on their intranet. I am almost certain that you will probably find this same picture in other Microsoft marketing materials if you looked hard enough. That’s no excuse for the oversight though. File it in the ‘gaffe’ folder.

13. redfish

    Oct 28th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    So Microsoft is alternating between dense, almost incomprehensible technobabble for developers (Azure) and stock photos of smiling faces for consumers (Windows 7).

    Good job, Microsoft! But I like the plans and new .NET logo:)

14. Tom

    Oct 28th, 2008 at 4:42 am

    They’re just lazy, it’s Windows XP’s had photoshoped.

15. Quikboy

    Oct 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    That’s why Microsoft should stop dropping stupid stock photos in almost everything they do. Still photos of smiling people, no matter how ugly or handsome, don’t mean a thing to most people. Best to just go simple, and drop a nice big logo, snazzy snapshots or thumbnail of a screenshot, and put a nice color scheme on the poster/page. You could only make less mistakes.

16. nullstring

    Oct 28th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    really!? well that’s great!

17. Brian

    Oct 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Me thinks Devmonster is right; it looks like a shot of XP running in some sort of virtualization mode within 7.

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