worked on the first try. Does this affect only XP?

It may happen in any Windows OS that was released after the war on terror started.

EX: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista (Maybe, not too sure on this)

It may also happen on Windows ME and 2000, though I doubt it because they were released before the war on terror.

Summary:
Message claims that the strange result when a Windows Notepad file with the text "Bush hid the facts" is re-opened may represent a deliberate anti-Bush political statement by Microsoft.

Status:
False

This little Windows Notepad "trick" is often posted to online forums and blogs and also travels via email. When the phrase "Bush hid the facts" is typed into the Windows XP or Windows NT/2000 versions of Notepad as instructed above, the re-opened file displays an unreadable line of squares or Chinese style characters.

Some of the more wide-eyed conspiracy theorists postulate that this result is a form of political commentary directed against US President Bush and was knowingly and deliberately programmed into Notepad by Microsoft.

Alas, the truth is far less compelling. It appears that a lot of other character strings in the pattern 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters will give the same result. For example, the phrase "Bill fed the goats" also displays the garbled text as shown below:

In fact, even a line of text such as "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" will elicit the same results.
So, nothing weird here at all...except perhaps for the fact that someone, somewhere had nothing better to do than turn a simple software glitch into another lame conspiracy theory.


Sorry to spoil the fun guys lol :P

^True

Took about 2 months here. Yes this is a well know bug which is found in notepad

Awwww. You killed it Shaun :P

Sorry My Bad LOL

yeah, i tried it again, and it didn't do the little squares