Oops, they forgot to include somebody in the Vista RTM booklet
On 30 January 2007 Larry Osterman and Nick White blogged about the shipping gifts distributed at Microsoft when Vista hit RTM. One of the things he included a picture of was a booklet with the names of all Microsoft employees who worked on Vista... well, nearly all of them...
There was much amusement in some quarters when it was discovered that an entire organization was missing from the booklet, not so much because they were missing, but because of what the missing people worked on.
The Director of Development, Windows Security, is a gentleman by the name of Klaus Schutz, and it is the omission of him, and his entire team, that was the cause of some mirth - "how ironic it is that Klaus and his team are missing", said some comedians, "when so many say that Windows doesn't have any security".
The screenshot below shows you the page in question; the privacy of Microsoft employees is, of course, of importance, so I've tried to show the omission without revealing other names - you can see that there is an ".. Schuster" followed by a "M... Schutz". Klaus Schutz would, of course, appear between those two names...
Word was the booklets were going to be reprinted and reissued with the missing names included but I don't know if that happened.
It is amazing to think how things have changed for the users of Microsoft operating systems. The minimum specifications for MS-DOS 6.22 were an 8088 or higher processor and 512K of memory.; Vista Ultimate requires a 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor and a gigabyte of memory (and another 128Meg on your video card if you want to Windows Aero Glass with Windows Flip and Flip 3D).
Here is MS-DOS 6.22 and Vista Ultimate Commemorative Edition, XP, Windows 98 and Windows 95 (sadly, I couldn't find my off-the-shelf copies of Windows ME or Windows 2000)...
