Bill Gates - Hall of Tortured Souls

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Bill Gates - Hall of Tortured Souls

In 1995, with the advent of TCP/IP and shortly later the Internet,
someone, or a team of coders, inserted a so-called Easter Egg inside
Microsoft Excell '95.  The title was a little sinister, `Hall of
Torture Souls', in this case the souls who underwent the whole
Microsoft treatment while programming on Microsoft campus, and
unexpected had died or had disappeared.
I made the pictures of this on May 16, 2004 at my home - I still had my
own house, garage - on a Dual Opteron workstation running Mandrake 10.1,
and its integrated K Desktop Environment version 3.2.3 which had two
Sun Microsystems Screens connected in so called `xinerama' mode.  I had
installed VMware and inside VMWare a Virtual machine with Dutch editions
of Microsoft Windows 95 and Office 95.
When firing up Excell 95 with a blanco spreadsheet, You go to Row 95,
and cell B95, and fire up the Help About popup. Next one pushes on the
Tech Support button ("Ondersteuning" in the Dutch language)

A New window will popup entitled "Hall of Tortured Souls",
which resembles the infamous shooter game Doom.

I made some screenshots :


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