Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!

pusa07

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    Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!
    MAGIC #1

    An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as "CON." This is something funny and inexplicable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
    TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A "CON" FOLDER

    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.
    Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!

    MAGIC #3
    Again this is something funny and can't be explained… 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
    And see the magic…..!:eek:
     

    sri_lion

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    Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

    How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

    It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

    1. Microsoft internal policies

    2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

    3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

    4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

    5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

    these are ones that I can think of!
     

    nabil

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    well da first one is reserved folder names by microsoft. second 1 probably coded by a bush supporter or bill gates sucking up to bush. third one could b done deliberately to check for sumthing.
     

    x-pert

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    pusa07 said:
    Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!
    MAGIC #1

    An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as "CON." This is something funny and inexplicable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
    TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A "CON" FOLDER

    Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

    Exp 01.
    You can rename folders as "con"
    Try this: md \\.\c:\con

    Exp02.
    Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

    In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

    to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



    Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

    Source: Microsoft ;)



    pusa07 said:
    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.
    Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!


    Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

    And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


    Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.





    pusa07 said:
    MAGIC #3
    Again this is something funny and can't be explained… 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
    And see the magic…..!:eek:


    :lol:

    This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

    (200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

    Source : me ;)
     

    sajithgamage

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    x-pert said:
    Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

    Exp 01.
    You can rename folders as "con"
    Try this: md \\.\c:\con

    Exp02.
    Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

    In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

    to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



    Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

    Source: Microsoft ;)






    Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

    And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


    Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.








    :lol:

    This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

    (200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

    Source : me ;)

    he he

    ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
     

    anurudda

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    sri_lion said:
    Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

    How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

    It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

    1. Microsoft internal policies

    2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

    3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

    4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

    5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

    these are ones that I can think of!

    correct... :D:D
     
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