Poll: Weird Windows Easter Egg

[Fluke]

Bizarre. Never heard that before. Wasn't there a basic flight sim hidden in a version of Office at one point?

BTW, nobody has got the "quick brown fox" line correct yet if you check...

 

[Regiment]

BTW, nobody has got the "quick brown fox" line correct yet if you check...

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

EDIT: Wait, the new captcha is "watch this ad and tell us what it's advertising"? I don't think I like that.

 

[Aeshi]

Not the most bizarre Easter egg I've seen, I'm pretty sure one version of Excel had a hidden FPS on it.

 

[Loop Stricken]

BTW, nobody has got the "quick brown fox" line correct yet if you check...

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 

[penguindude42]

Haha, I searched for this on YouTube just now, it's gorgeous!

*wipes away manly tears*

~Tom<3<3<3

 

[Nouw]

Sounds pretty awesome, I'm sure my friends will delight over this. Especially my jazz loving one.

 

[Natasha_LB]

BTW, nobody has got the "quick brown fox" line correct yet if you check...

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

No one seems to have mentioned the significance of the phrase yet, I'm sure most of you already know but for those of you that don't I'll explain (For once I get to be the person that appears to know something!)

The phrase contains every letter in the alphabet, making it valuable for testing communication systems (Such as Morse code), keyboards, and even handwriting. I personally use it every time I set up a microphone, as it sounds better than "testing, testing 1 2 3". I assume that the Easter egg in which it appears is nothing but a left over test for the program. As for the egg that the op mentioned, I've heard it before, but hopefully new people will discover it this way (Not that it's amazing or anything, but such eggs are always fun)

 

[Colour Scientist]

I only found that a few days ago after a friend pointed it out.
Here be some other crap:
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPSecrets.html

 

[NiXi]

Ah onestop. Good times were had by all.

Yes there are some others, can't remember any though, something about MS office and a peice of code to make it type something about a swift brown fox that jumps or something.

I think the thing your looking for is the easter egg in Office 2003, type "=rand(200,99)" and it prints the fox sentence out a load of times.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Just looked up that soundbite.

0_0 My mind is blown

 

[Zeema]

don't have a Keyboard connected to your Window's

it says

'No Keyboard Detected, Press F2'

 

[Mr Thin]

BTW, nobody has got the "quick brown fox" line correct yet if you check...

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Aw, I was gonna correct everyone and feel all clever, but you beat me to it.

There's actually loads of sentences like that, many of them shorter; that's just the most popular.

OT: No, I hadn't heard of it before. And now I have.

I'm listening to it now. It's interesting.