dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) (01/11/91)
In article <1991Jan10.022122.487@ae.chalmers.se> hogstedt@ae.chalmers.se (PER HOGSTEDT) writes: > >Today I learned that pressing F3 while typing "win3", releasing F3 and hitting >"Backspace" will display the names of the people involved in writing Win3.0 >as a background. > >The natural question is: what other hidden "features" have people discovered?? > I don't know about anyone else, but these cutsie-ass "features" are a waste of MY disk space, and a waste of MY RAM. I hope that someone at Microsoft reads this and passes along my feelings that they should spend their time making Windows SMALLER, FASTER, and LESS BUG-RIDDEN (along with decreasing the amount of time I have to wait on hold on their automated phone system :-( instead of making me pay for these useless, stupid "features"! -- Dave Dittrich Dept. of Chemistry BG-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 dittrich@u.washington.edu ...!uw-beaver!u.washington.edu!dittrich "Teachers are the only profession that teach our children." Dan Quayle
al@well.sf.ca.us (Alfred Fontes) (01/13/91)
>... I hope that someone at Microsoft >reads this and passes along my feelings that they should spend their time >making Windows SMALLER, FASTER, and LESS BUG-RIDDEN (along with decreasing Remember that one way of improving quality is allowing people to be identified with their work. If your name appears on a product, you are probably more likely to try to make it as good as possible.
bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler) (01/14/91)
> >... I hope that someone at Microsoft reads this and passes along > > my feelings that they should spend their time making Windows SMALLER, > > FASTER, and LESS BUG-RIDDEN (along with decreasing > > Remember that one way of improving quality is allowing people to be > identified with their work. If your name appears on a product, you > are probably more likely to try to make it as good as possible. Speaking *as* a programmer, I know *I* pay more attention to my work when I know the end-users know that I was the one who wrote it. I kind of like that "names" screen whimsy, the same way I liked the fact that the original Mac had the names of its programmers embossed on the inside of the case. Our freeware Fractint program fires up with a scrolling list of contributing authors for just that reason. Personally, I think it's a little self-defeating to treat your staff as non-entities, and this applies to more than your programmers. I still remember the comment by the owner of a company I used to work for when we had a cutback - he explained that it really wasn't a cutback, because we weren't eliminating the slots, we were just getting rid of the people...
ZUR058@DMSWWU1C.BITNET (Ulrich Hund) (01/15/91)
In article <819@nih-csl.nih.gov>, bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler) says: > >> >... I hope that someone at Microsoft reads this and passes along >> > my feelings that they should spend their time making Windows SMALLER, >> > FASTER, and LESS BUG-RIDDEN (along with decreasing >> >> Remember that one way of improving quality is allowing people to be >> identified with their work. If your name appears on a product, you >> are probably more likely to try to make it as good as possible. > >Speaking *as* a programmer, I know *I* pay more attention to my work >when I know the end-users know that I was the one who wrote it. I kind Sure, it is better when the programmers are identified with their product, but if it is done via F3 "win3" F3 (what nobody should know) it is not worth the trouble. Why don't tell the names in the manual or the startup screen??? And: The Bug-Fixes are very important, even because everybody knows the programmers now. Ulli
tlutz@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Todd Lutz) (01/17/91)
Here is a hidden feature of Word for Windows:
1. Turn CAPS LOCK on.
2. Choose Format, Define Styles, Options.
3. In the Based On field, select Normal.
4. You will get an error message, select OK.
5. Select Cancel.
6. Select Help, About.
7. Make sure your mouse cursor is inside the help box, then press the
following four keys all at the same time: OPUS
You should get some fireworks with the authors names scrolling on the
screen.