Microsoft Easter Eggs

Some of Microsoft's early products included hidden Easter eggs. Microsoft formally stopped including Easter eggs in its programs as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002. Here are some of the easter eggs. there are more but 'll just post the few interesting ones.

Microsoft Office 2000

Following in the tradition of hiding a small game in Microsoft Office programs, using Microsoft Excel 2000 and the Microsoft Office Web Components, a small 3-D game called "Dev Hunter" (inspired by Spy Hunter) is accessible.[9] DirectX must be installed for this to work, and the egg is incompatible with certain service pack upgrades. This easter egg can be activated by performing the following steps:

1. Open a new Excel book.
2. Go to the File menu and select 'Save As Webpage'.
3. In the dialog box for Save As, select 'Selection: Sheet' and check the box labeled 'Add Interactivity'.
4. Click the 'Publish' button (file name is irrelevant).
5. On the Publish dialog box that appears, simply click the 'Publish' button again.
6. Open the .htm file that was created in Microsoft Internet Explorer (it should appear as a blank page with an Excel spreadsheet in the centre- if it doesn't, you likely don't have the Microsoft Office Web Components installed).
7. Scroll to the cell in row 2000, column WC. Align the spreadsheet so this cell is the first cell on the left. Select the whole row, with the cell in column WC sub-selected (it will be white, while the rest of the row will be colored light purple).
8. Hold down the Shift, Control, and Alt keys and left-click on the Office logo (the square composed of puzzle pieces).

The Dev Hunter game should now open. The car can be controlled using the arrow keys, the spacebar fires projectiles, and the 'H' and 'O' keys activate headlights and an oilslick, respectively. Developer credits and humorous sentences appear on the roadway. Interestingly, collisions between the car the user controls and other cars, as well as collisions between the other cars themselves, appear to correctly follow the principle of Conservation of Momentum.


Windows 98 credits egg

Windows 98 has a credits screen easter egg.There are two ways to view it. One involves the Date/Time properties dialog box, but the more straightforward method is listed below:

1. Create a shortcut to the Weldata.exe program in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Welcome directory.
2. Right-click on the shortcut and open the Properties dialog box.
3. In the target path field, add the text "You_are_a_real_rascal" to the end of the path (without the quotes).
4. In the Run field, select Minimized.
5. After making these changes, double-click on the shortcut and the credits egg should open.

Hover!
Hover! is a video game that came bundled with Windows 95. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time. It is still available from Microsoft [3] and can be run on all of Microsoft's operating systems released since Windows 95 including Windows Vista.

One level (shown as "small.maz" in the mazes directory of the game) is used as the introduction level shown when the game finishes starting up. While the player cannot move your ship or indeed move at all, if the player manages to relocate his or her car through some creative hacking, he or she can view pictures of the developer's heads.The player cannot simply rename and load this level normally; the maze is missing spawns for all other objects and crashes immediately on load.

Microsoft Word 97

word 97 has a pinball game hidden into it. just follow the following steps and you will be playing pinball after that.

1. Load Microsoft Word as you normally would.
2. Type the word "Blue" (without the quotes).
3. Highlight the word you just typed.
4. Click on the Format menu, and choose Font.
5. In the Font Dialog Box, make the word Bold by selecting Bold from the style section, and choose Blue for the colour.
6. Click OK.
7. Making sure the cursor is after the word Blue, push the space bar once.
8. Click on the Help menu, and choose About Microsoft Word.
9. While holding the Ctrl and Shift keys at the same time, click on the Word logo.

If all went right, a pinball game should appear, and you can control your padles using Z and M. Their will also be the credits of the Word programmers, displayed along the side of the screen.

Flight Stimulator in Microsoft Excel 97

Start Microsoft Excel as you normally would, then follow the instruction below:

1. Press either F5, or select the Go To command from the menu bar.
2. In the Dialog Box that appears, type X97:L97, and click on OK (or press enter). This will select the appropriate cells in the spreadsheet.
3. Push the Tab button on your keyboard once.
4. While holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys at the same time, click on the Chart Wizard button (on your toolbar).

If all goes as planned, a flight simulator will appear. You can control your vehicle using your mouse. If you click on the left mouse button, your vehicle will speed up, while if you click on the right mouse button, your vehicle will slow down and eventually go into reverse.

Try out these things(if you can cos no one these days uses the older versions of windows and office) and you can impress your friends.