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Microsoft Magic

Fact-check by Hoax-SlayerPublished 1 min read

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The claim

Message outlines three seemingly strange procedures in Microsoft Windows operating systems and claims that not even Microsoft knows why these procedures work as they do

Subject: Microsoft Magic

MAGIC #1

An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!

TRY IT NOW,IT WILL NOT CREATE “CON” FOLDER

MAGIC #2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1) Open an empty notepad file

2) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)

3) Save it as whatever you want..

4) Close it, and re-open it.

Is it just a really weird bug? At Microsoft they say they don’t know why this happens.

MAGIC #3

Microsoft’s crazy facts

This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian.. Try it out yourself….

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER then see the magic…….

Rated Hoax by Hoax-Slayer.

What the fact-checkers found

The procedures are real, but the reasons they occur are well documented.

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