Crazy Microsoft facts

[Barbarian]

Maybe it's cause I'm bored out of my mind but I found this pretty interesting.

http://www.frogview.com/show3.php?file=4854

MAGIC #1

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER
anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable. ..
At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this
happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

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MAGIC #2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? Confused?

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MAGIC #3


This is something pretty cool and neat...and
unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team,
including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this
happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out
yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

[baseline bum]

MAGIC #3


This is something pretty cool and neat...and
unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team,
including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this
happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out
yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

I don't use Word. What happens with #3?

[Flight3107]

what happens with #2

[baseline bum]

what happens with #2

After saving the file, reopen it in Notepad and it's just a bunch of boxes (like it's encrypted data or something).

[hater]

don't do #3!!

it will erase your hard drive

[FromWayDowntown]

I don't use Word. What happens with #3?

I got 491 pages of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" repeated

And I still seem to have my hard drive, too.

[Dex]

After saving the file, reopen it in Notepad and it's just a bunch of boxes (like it's encrypted data or something).

Actually, mine changed to all Chinese characters after you open the file back up. If you don't have the Chinese fonttypes installed on your machine, you probably just see the default boxes.

For #3, after you press enter, you get pages of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." over and over and over again.

....weird. Gottamn Winbox conspiracies!

[Viva Las Espuelas]

on #1 you can change the 200 to any number and it'll work.

[Heath Ledger]

#2 didn't do to me in vista

[dallaskd]

#3 is creepy as

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

WTF those are weird.

[2Blonde]

I have Vista.... #1 worked but #2 had the same info when I re-opened it.
For #3 I got several pages of crap about using the insert key and creating different do ent themes. No quick brown fox!

[dallaskd]

I wonder if there is some secret meaning behind "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

[ChuckD]

I wonder if there is some secret meaning behind "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Yes. It means that all of the letter keys on your keyboard work.

[Evan]

I wonder if there is some secret meaning behind "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_qui...r_the_lazy_dog

[E20]

Number 3 did not work for me.

[sabar]

Number one is a reserved keyword like com1, com2, ect so that command line paramaters still make sense. You can't do 'mkdir con' because things that use con would be nonsense, like 'cp con con'.

Number two is an algorithm problem with how to figure out how a file is encoded knowing nothing about the file. Notepad screws up on that phrase and a bunch of other ones. Text can be encoded as ANSI or Unicode but notepad doesn't save that info to a text file, so when it's opened, it has to guess if it doesn't have enough characters to identify it.

Number three is intentional to test fonts. That sentence has every letter in the alphabet.