They've been explained, but still kinda amusing

[Scott Huish]

http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/

 

[Andrew Fergus]

See also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products

 

[QuietRiot]

how is the 2nd one explained?

i know it can be anything that is 4, 3, 3, 5 text characters long. but why does it do it?

This one is actually a real bug IMO. weak API function

 

[Scott Huish]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad

 

[Greg Truby]

...nobody can create a FOLDER...named as “CON”...At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!

Then it must have been a really young team. I immediately remembered that CON was a DOS term and guessed that there might be some type of connection. I find it hard to believe that nobody in Microsoft remembered this. I wonder what "the whole team" meant? A team somewhere in India doing outsource work for MS? Or does "team" refer to folks back in Redmond?

 

[Norie]

Greg

Can't recall a DOS term but I did find this a bit weird.

If you open a command prompt and type CON and enter this is the error message.

' ' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Now where's that darn CON disappeared too?

 

[Greg Truby]

CON was (is, I guess) short for CONSOLE. Like PRN or LPT1, you could use it to direct output or specify input. A common usage was COPY CON MYFILE.TXT and type in some text and then hit ^Z and [Enter] to save the file. Been a really, really long time since I've done that. And I was never a real DOS guru anyhow. Another fun thing - from the command prompt you can type EDIT MYFILE.TXT and pull up the predecessor to NotePad - the old DOS text editor. That takes me back to the Reagan years...

 

[Scott Huish]

I haven't done the COPY CON thing in years either, but I just tried it at the command prompt in Windows 2000 and it still works.