While I'm thinking about Microsoft, here's an interesting bit for computer historians.
Mithun Dhar's MSDN blog has posted a couple of interesting photos from Microsoft history.
There was a recent reunion of the original eleven Microsoft employees where they re-created a much earlier photo taken just before they moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue (which is about 5 miles west of the current Redmond campus).
First, the Albuquerque photo:
That's (top row) Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane, (middle row) Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc, McDonald, Gordon Letwin, (front row) Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, and Paul Allen.
And the current photo:
Here we have (top row) Bob O'Rear, Steve Wood, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin, Jim Lane, (front row) Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Miriam Lubow, Marla Wood, and Paul Allen.
The second photo includes Miriam Lubow who was absent from the first photo. Bob Wallace passed away in 2002 (in addition to his work at Microsoft, Bob invented the term shareware and authored one of the earliest word processing applications, PC-Write).
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