This is not the first thing Microsoft has gotten backwards.
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Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est

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Robin Colgrove wrote:
> Has anyone else commented on the fact that the Windows screen background,
> Radiance, is mirror-reversed? It is a photograph of the Northern edge of the
> Mare Imbrium (the Left eye of the Man in the Moon). If you have very sharp
> vision (or a decent pair of binoculars) you can see this for yourself.
> Presumably this is a photo taken through a reflecting telescope with an odd
> number of mirrors, but still, the moon is a real, physical, easily visible
> object, and it is not trivial -I think- to get it backwards. I mean, what if
> one of the backgrounds showed a telescopic picture of the Earth taken from
> space and had the continents flipped over? Does anyone know where this
> picture came from and if it has always been backwards? I know it's a bit OCD,
> but I "fixed" the image on the computers where I work ;^) .