Here is the stock photo in question.
http://www.eyewire.com/cgi-bin/WebOb...product=437485
This is a pathetic attempt, that I can quite see from Microsoft. Microsoft copies everything from Apple, the GUI, Mac OS X, iMovie, and so many other examples. And now they launch almost identical ads.
Their ads are absolutely horrible and usually backfires on them. For example a couple of months ago, they launched an ad campaign against Unix and Linux, and Solaris. The ad was something like "Boxed in," anyways the ad was completely stripped down of its creditability, when people found out that it was a Unix sever that was hosting its Anti-Unix ad website.
To tell you the truth, this is probably a disgruntle Windows programmer that has nothing better to do, and not an executive decision.