Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!

[bindujain]

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…..!

[Jack.hardon]

This was seriously incredible..I didn't knew Bill Gates can do a mistake and Microsoft cant justify it..seriously I salute this info..its shocking one friends..

[dipu]

Originally Posted by Postman

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…..!

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[jitendragarg]

Originally Posted by Postman

Explanations from Microsoft team!!!

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


---- CON is a shortcut for connection. Creating a new folder with same name causes system to confuse it with connection, hence the error. It has been rectified in Win7 and 8.

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!

---- It was a Easter egg. During 9/11 a lot of conspiracy theory came to light. Microsoft team added this as a funny prank. All coders do this kind of thing. Look for Konami code on Wikipedia, to understand more about this.

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…..!


---- Rand function is used by debugging team to create a wall of text. This was used to test the fonts and other rendering bugs. Someone forgot to comment out this function in final build. Later on, it is used by designers to test if their fonts are working fine. Game designers need special fonts, and hence this is the easiest test for them to try it out. In short, it is a feature now.

To, kaise lage explanations?? Sorry, aapke sutr ka topic thoda badal gaya. Joke se "Myths busted" wala topic ho gaya.

[Jack.hardon]

Oh my god you really have explanations for this..its amazing...I can't believe it..You must be a software Engineer right???

[jitendragarg]

Originally Posted by Jack.hardon8@yahoo.in

Oh my god you really have explanations for this..its amazing...I can't believe it..You must be a software Engineer right???

Sadly, yes. Only thing is IT industry hasn't been kind to me.

[Jack.hardon]

Oh thats sad..that has been the same behavior as the electronics industry shows to me..What do you do then???can you help me in any way???

[arvind]

Originally Posted by Postman

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

इसमे जादू जैसी कोई चीज नहीं है और ना ही ऐसा कुछ, जिसके बारे मे माइक्रोसॉफ़्ट कुछ स्पष्टीकरण दे। ऐसा इसलिए हो रहा है क्योंकि standard input/output के लिए "con" एक सुरक्षित शब्द (reserved word) है।

इस तरह के अन्य सुरक्षित शब्द है : CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, & LPT9.

Command prompt या Windows Explorer द्वारा इनमे से किसी भी नाम से फोंल्डर बनाना संभव नहीं है।

मगर रुकिए एक तरीका है, जिससे इन नामो से फोंल्डर बनाया जा सकता है।

Command Prompt पर जाये। इसके लिए syntax है - md \\.\\$path
Examplerompt>md \\.\\C:\con
इस प्रकार आप अपने C ड्राइव मे "con" नाम से फोंल्डर बना सकते है।

[arvind]

Originally Posted by Postman

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!

Simple. Notepad saves as a plain text file. This means no header, no extra encoding (unless you choose to save the file as unicode, and then every one of those characters gets 2 bytes instead of the one in ANSI). Basically, all the file contains is Bush hid the facts in its binary equivalent, or in hex, the phrase is "42 75 73 68 20 68 69 64 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 63 74 73". So the whole file contains just those 18 bytes. Unicode uses 2 bytes so this trick would not work well (except in very rare cases) if there were an odd number of bytes. Notepad uses a statistical algorithm when it can't tell directly that a file is unicode or ANSI. Because the phrase is only 18 characters long, the statistical algorithm doesn't have much to work with. So with this particular phrase, it guesses unicode based on the statistical calculations it makes. It guesses wrong of course, but it guesses just as wrong with phrases like "Bobo has one tulip". Notepad was designed to be an all-purpose app but as such it has some mistakes. It is worthwhile to mention, though, that it can open certain files with unicode encoding without the unicode header that other applications fail on. Conspiracy theories are like *** holes. Everyone's got one.