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Wow. I thought Microsoft were too uncool to include stuff like this in their code.

by derrida 16y ago

canop 16y ago
You were right : "This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on."
- savramescu 16y ago
  So Microsoft actually suppressed this on Normal Mode, but not in Safe Mode. At least there's information about it somewhere, because I wouldn't expect it if I encountered it.
  - jsight 16y ago
    "During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. "
dazzawazza 16y ago
It's in the bios so it would happen if you were running any OS. Evidence of MS coolness still eludes us.
- nikcub 16y ago
  how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
  - ajarmoniuk 16y ago
    Not anymore. After the lawsuit about including the web browser with the system they are no longer allowed to include undocumented features in their software. (citation needed)
    - rubyrescue 16y ago
      no it wasn't then. It was around 2000 or so and more related to (as i remember) two things - securing government and enterprise contracts and public perception related to viruses and security. I was there as an employee in Visual Studio and distinctly remember the admonition from Brian Valentine that there were to be NO easter eggs in Win2K and on. They couldn't credibly say that they were in control of the security of the platform with people hiding doom levels in Excel and (in the case of Visual Studio) working slot machines...
      - ajarmoniuk 16y ago
        Working slot machines? Please tell me more...
        rubyrescue 16y ago
        visual studio 6.0 - help | about, then ctrl-shift while double clicking the visual studio logo. the code name for the project was... vegas EDIT: wow this isn't even on wikipedia. i feel like i'm revealing a MS secret. :)
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    - nikcub 16y ago
      ye hence my past tense because I couldn't recall one from more recent products. that sounds like a reasonable reason why they don't do it anymore
  - thepumpkin1979 16y ago
    Excel takes 154MB in disk... that's why!

Wow. I thought Microsoft were too uncool to include stuff like this in their code.

by derrida 16y ago

Wow. I thought Microsoft were too uncool to include stuff like this in their code.

canop 16y ago

You were right : "This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on."

savramescu 16y ago
So Microsoft actually suppressed this on Normal Mode, but not in Safe Mode. At least there's information about it somewhere, because I wouldn't expect it if I encountered it.
- jsight 16y ago
  "During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. "

dazzawazza 16y ago

It's in the bios so it would happen if you were running any OS. Evidence of MS coolness still eludes us.

nikcub 16y ago
how about the flight simulator easter egg in Excel? that was cool microsoft always included cool easter eggs in their products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_produc...
- ajarmoniuk 16y ago
  Not anymore. After the lawsuit about including the web browser with the system they are no longer allowed to include undocumented features in their software. (citation needed)
  - rubyrescue 16y ago
    no it wasn't then. It was around 2000 or so and more related to (as i remember) two things - securing government and enterprise contracts and public perception related to viruses and security. I was there as an employee in Visual Studio and distinctly remember the admonition from Brian Valentine that there were to be NO easter eggs in Win2K and on. They couldn't credibly say that they were in control of the security of the platform with people hiding doom levels in Excel and (in the case of Visual Studio) working slot machines...
    - ajarmoniuk 16y ago
      Working slot machines? Please tell me more...
      - rubyrescue 16y ago
        visual studio 6.0 - help | about, then ctrl-shift while double clicking the visual studio logo. the code name for the project was... vegas EDIT: wow this isn't even on wikipedia. i feel like i'm revealing a MS secret. :)
        deleted 15y ago
        [deleted]
  - nikcub 16y ago
    ye hence my past tense because I couldn't recall one from more recent products. that sounds like a reasonable reason why they don't do it anymore
- thepumpkin1979 16y ago
  Excel takes 154MB in disk... that's why!