Heard of Easter Eggs from Microsoft?

Today I got this pretty interesting newsletter. They were discussing about the ‘heydays’ where computer enthusiast will try cracking some code from your popular Microsoft Excel 95, 97 and 2000. These Microsoft developers will embed some programs (games) within the Excel program itself. They call it ‘Easter Eggs’ In order to get this game to appear, what you need to do is do stuff like ’save as’ go to go to a certain row, perform keyboard shortcuts and voila! The game will appear as an embedded object and there are games like flight simulator, racing and some dungeon explorer thing.

This is my first time knowing this. I wish I have a MS Excel for those version so I could check em out. This was a way for developers to leave their mark since they have spent hours of time developing those softwares. Very cool. Some even show photos of the team involved. Oh by the way, they also mentioned that these developers also did it for MS Access, MS Words and Power Point too.

For more info, check it out from this link here from Tech Republic

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