Thread: Easter Eggs
View Single Post
  #7  
Old 09-16-2008, 09:56 AM
Vodstok's Avatar
Vodstok Vodstok is offline
Fear scented candle
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The edge of forever
Posts: 13,650
Quote:
Originally Posted by urgeok2 View Post
these werent in games !

they were in MS Word, Excel, etc .. regular software programs

one of them had a doom level, the other a flight simulator .. cant remember which is which .. it was amazing how much bogus hidden code was delivered with the software.
MS is all business these days. their prodcuts have become incredibly inflated, with teams of hundreds working on them, and QA departments as big or bigger. nothing but bugs slip through :)

Seriously, though. especially in a company like microsoft, people just dont have time for fun stuff like that any more, and with the levels of effort put into making sure every piece of programming code is clean and works with everythign else, you cant afford to have chunks that dont belong to the core functionality hanging out and possibly causing conflicts. Its sad, but its "progress".
Reply With Quote