Pretty trivial :

If you set the screen saver to to 3d Text (Open GL) and set the text to
'I Love NT' it displays 'Good ?'.
If you set the text to 'Not Evil' ( An anagram of the above ) it displays
the names of the development team.

Another interesting one ( And it works )

In Word 97, if you set the language to US and run the thesaurus on 'I
Would like to kill Bill Gates' it suggests 'I'll Drink to That!'

I have a colleague who swears that during an installation of windows, he
saw a brief flash of a screen sized bitmap of a fly, but I reckon he'd
dozed off halfway through!!!!

Neil

 -----Original Message-----
From: Engineering Department [SMTP:imagelogic@IBM.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 15:06
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Easter Eggs (OT)

<A PIC list member observed>

>> One handy hint that has swung one legal case I know of.... Build in
>> some hidden functionality to the product - some bizarre combination of
>> buttons or whatever that performs no useful function and will not be
>> found by accident.
>> This provides a very easy way to prove that a rival product uses
>> ripped-off code.


<Tjaart van der Walt replied in part>
>Very good idea. Something like the 'easter eggs' in Windows, or
>some cell phones (like the Siemens).

"Easter eggs" in Windoze?  Can you tell me more?  I'm just curious, it's
the
sort of trivia that facinates me.


Cheers,

Win Wiencke
ImageLogic@ibm.net