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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. (c
by ajarmoniuk 15y 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 15y 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 15y agoWorking slot machines? Please tell me more...
- rubyrescue 15y 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 15y 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