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It's in the bios so it would happen if you were running any OS. Evidence of MS coolness still eludes us.
by 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 agohow 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 agoNot 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 agono 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 agoWorking slot machines? Please tell me more...
- rubyrescue 16y agovisual 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 agoye 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 agoExcel takes 154MB in disk... that's why!