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Did you know...
- ...that a Nashville Plus Pack build of Internet Explorer 4 had its page loading animation being a humorous banner of the Internet Explorer icon kicking the Mozilla mascot to jab at its competition with Netscape at the time?
- ...that while the first shipping 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows was for the Itanium, the 64-bit port was actually developed on DEC Alpha systems?
- ...that the supposed Longhorn sound scheme in fact wasn't included in any Windows build and actually originated from a Samsung OEM theme for Windows XP?
- ...that Windows Longhorn build 4088 includes an early version of the .NET Managed rewrite of Desktop Window Manager that is not installed by default?
- ...that Windows 98 build 1387 has a hidden button in display properties to enable title bar gradients, and is also the first build of Windows to support this feature?
- ...that the IA-64 compile of Windows Server 2003 build 2462 includes login banners for a Personal edition of Windows 2000?
