Windows 8 Bill Gates Avatar

During the development of Windows 8 (2012), in builds 8161-8176 from late 2011/early 2012, an oddly-detailed generic user account picture was present. It was a nod to the now infamous mugshot of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, taken in 1977 for a traffic violation. 🤭 Lorenzo Windows Developer Preview

A Windows 8 Developer Preview screen shows a generic white user silhouette alongside an oddly detailed portrait resembling Bill Gates’s 1977 mugshot, highlighted with a red arrow and circle. The joke is that an obscure Windows avatar was apparently modeled after Gates’s embarrassing traffic-violation mugshot, turning a minor software detail into an absurd Microsoft Easter egg. EN: A Windows 8 Developer Preview screen shows a generic white user silhouette alongside an oddly detailed portrait resembling Bill Gates’s 1977 mugshot, highlighted with a red arrow and circle. The joke is that an obscure Windows avatar was apparently modeled after Gates’s embarrassing traffic-violation mugshot, turning a minor software detail into an absurd Microsoft Easter egg.

• @gentoomemes / 13185 2024-09-05