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You still can't name a file or folder "con" (even in Win7) because it's a reserved word used for keyboard input on the command line. When Windows 9x was popular, you could bluescreen any machine on a local network by trying to access the share \\machinename\con\con, which was great if you lived in a dorm :)

You can do it with Cygwin though, and Explorer will still have trouble dealing with it after it's been created. You can also create files with a trailing period or leading/trailing space, which usually isn't allowed.

I just verified that the =rand(200,99) one does still exist (in Word 2008 on Mac anyway). As brunov said, this looks more like an easter egg than a bug though.

I wouldn't call it an easter egg.

It's primary use is for layouts when you need some filler text.

"Inverted commas"? Really?

Last two look more like easter eggs than bugs.

The Bush one is in fact a bug, described pretty well here: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/07/11/662342.aspx

The second? No clue.

It's not even a bug, really. The behavior works as intended, it just may not be what the user expects.

The Bush one still works.

It's fixed in Vista's Notepad, btw.