Comments on: Microsoft Australia’s “Ten Grand is Buried Here” treasure hunt is over, prize claimed

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:01:10 +0000

Good on ya Gavin!
Stubbies all around.
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By: Zhou Quan

Zhou Quan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:32:00 +0000

Hello, Long Zheng. I usually visit your website named “bing image archive”. But now perhaps something is wrong with it. Could you have a look to check it. Thank you very much!

By: YetAnotherPC

YetAnotherPC — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:15:13 +0000

Lol RobertR, I was thinking the same thing. It’s amazing that anyone was able to win, those clues were crazy and super vague. There’ no way I would’ve won, there’s just no way.

By: RobertR

RobertR — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:11:38 +0000

They call those clues?
They only made random statements and tried to vaguely associate it with anything remotely related to IE8.

Clue 98:
“He ran down the hill and fell”
A quick bing search reveals that people who run down hills often fall, and also that most people running down hills wear shoes, and people who wear shoes have feet. Feet are important because the people behind IE8 also have feet!!!! This will be important later in the game, when you try to figure out what a potato and a famous singer from the ’80s have in common.

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:18:46 +0000

Wow, those clues were pretty in depth and well plotted out. Anyway, I’ll still use IE8. I just need a simple browser for browsing, and IE8’s security is pretty top notch if you ask me.

By: Shi7zam

Shi7zam — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:51:15 +0000

“this puzzle is very similar to trying to figure out some of Microsoft’s buggy software… just remember all those IE6 workarounds you still have to apply to your web sites…”

quoted for impact.

yes plenty of clue searching to do when trying to find workarounds/reg tweaks or better alternatives to Microsoft’s junky designed and architectured crap.

btw I’m sure MS is quite happy many useless businesses and retard IT admins leave IE6 on PC’s to put users through the hassle of such shit… I mean it all counts towards there failing IE market share. Personally I say make websites that don’t work or look shit when viewed on IE (specially IE6).. sooner it gets dumped the better.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:14:54 +0000

this puzzle is very similar to trying to figure out some of Microsoft’s buggy software… just remember all those IE6 workarounds you still have to apply to your web sites…

By: Shi7zam

Shi7zam — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:59:21 +0000

fast?! safe??!! private???!!! better??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?.. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

IE -what a joke.

as for the clues.. jeesh people went through that :S

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:29:58 +0000

@Alex: It’s still there actually, but I figured out it needs you to login first. I’ve uploaded it to this site for convenience.

By: Alex Angas

Alex Angas — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:26:04 +0000

Unfortunately the link to the PDF is now gone.