>>If you read the post, you'd see the QA org saw that Easter Egg, took it in the right spirit (like they should), and signed it okay for beta release (mistakenl

>>If you read the post, you'd see the QA org saw that Easter Egg, took it in the right spirit (like they should), and signed it okay for beta release (mistakenly, I'd presume) followed by everyone else in the bureaucratic chain that might have okay'd it as well.<< As mentioned above, there were a string of failures. Don't just blame QA for finding the bugs that don't get fixed. If it gets signed off, it gets signed off, there are a bunch of departments that can look at the bug database as well. And, in the end, 9/10 of the people who found this people probably loved the fact that Microsoft finally showed a little bit of soul.