You've undoubtedly heard the rumors. Wild parties, heavy drinking and pirated software in the Redmond Campus. All of you with week hearts... Look away! Look away I tell you! OK, maybe I exaggerated a tad, but I couldn't help it and please don't hold it against me. I would like to thank Nick White, Windows Vista Product Manager for making the adjacent images available. Well onwards…

You are able to see the Vista team letting their hair down and partying wildly. And originally, I might add. No alcohol, no night club, no entertainers. Windows Vista's team idea of a party is as eccentric as it is well... geeky. "Photos from our RTM ship party on Wednesday ... there were over 2K balloons in the room (at least, before everyone started popping them)," Nick White describes the images.

Bacchus and Dionysus were nowhere to be found near the Vista RTM shindig. But that seems to matter little to the Vista team swimming in a mass of multicolored balloons.