[prego_xo]

If I had to guess, it's probably because most people love a cute easter-egg and this story was someone excited to have had their project noticed and implemented by Microsoft, off whom it was based; and your comment on the matter is that easter-eggs are stupid and outdated.

Also, I'm new here: how do you downvote a comment?

[denton-scratch]

Heh :-) By not being new here! If you've got 500 points, you see a down arrow next to a post. But I don't like that button; clicking it feels a bit caca.

[ledauphin]

new users are unable to downvote until they've been commenting for a while.