Although Vista's Speech Recognition Engine was meant as an incentive feature that would attract consumers to the latest operating system from Microsoft, its presentation failed much to the amusement of the audience of the day-long analysts meeting on Thursday 27 July, 2006. Shanen Boettcher, a Windows Vista product manager, acting as the presenter of the default voice recognition software of Vista, only managed to stage a linguistic joggling act with the aid of the application. The routine presentation turned out to be far from routine as the software was unresponsive to vocal commands and typed "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" instead of the beginning of a letter addressed to Boettcher's mother.

This failure has translated into the street fashion world and now online enterprises have began selling T-shirts with the erroneous message. Presented as Windows Vista recognition poetry, the T-shirt with the characteristics "5.5 oz 100% preshrunk cotton - double-needle hemmed trim - contrast ringer neck and sleeves" is also complete with the joggled message spawned by Vista's speech recognition engine. Boettcher's "Dear mom" has translated to street-ware under "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all".