Crazy things in Microsoft

[punk]

Hi all
Try these things

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


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?


MAGIC #3
microsoft crazy facts


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
then see the magic...............................

[sachin_kothari]

well, the first problem is no more now.
u cannot create it normally because it is a system device.
try creating folder named CON1, u wont be able because again that's a system device

but, u can create a CON folder as follows
Go on command prompt
Type
md \\.\c:\con

The folder would be created

[Anindya]

in my case it didnt happen though i tried from windows itself and not from dos. The 3 magics r awesome.

[max_demon]

you cant create folders named con,prn,con1,lpt,etc coz they refer to system devices

[shady_inc]

Knew about them already...

[Hackattack]

Didn't knew the 3rd one.

[BBThumbHealer]

2nd one is showing the same ! no magic here in Vista !

[sivarap]

Originally Posted by punk

Hi all


MAGIC #3
microsoft crazy facts


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

What kinda reasoning is that? like Gates writes all the codes by himself...... Wierd........ ....

[aryayush]

Originally Posted by Hackattack

Didn't knew the 3rd one.

It was a pivotal point in Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ The Call Centre. He even credited Microsoft for that bug/easter egg.

What happens if try the second one though?

[satyamy]

its an old stuff

[Hackattack]

@arayush The 2nd one is probably a bug. Works with some other words also.
I found character in the order 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters give same results like "aaaa aaa aaa aaaaa".

[Cool G5]

I knew the first one.Btw u can create folder as said above.
I will try the remaining two.

[iamtheone]

the first one was even asked by a reader in digit's reader's questions collumn.
and the third one(as arayush already told) was in chetan bhagat's one night@call centre.one more interesting thing about that sentence"the quick brown fox jumps over the crazy dog" is that it contains all the letters of english language.

[Minimalistix]

At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!

Rubbish!

[AshishSharma]

Originally Posted by punk

Hi all
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

Already Explained why

Originally Posted by punk

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?

As discovered long back any string with letter pattern like 4 3 3 5 Eg "AAAA AAA AAA AAAAA" should give the same result. I am on Vista so it wouldn't work for me now but may be you guys can try similar strings and let us know the result. Eg : Macs are for fools

Originally Posted by punk

MAGIC #3
microsoft crazy facts

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
then see the magic...............................

This one is older than the word old itself nyways the interesting thing is that it puts different lines in different languages.

These aren't bugs but things intentionally put in by the programmers and I am damn sure no users discovered them but the programmers shared them out unofficially off-course.

[shantanu]

the 3rd one was answered about 4 years back.. it a macro enabling code , which was produced by a automated script in windows.. and its nothing like magic.. i

[sam_1710]

too old stuff!!