With Microsoft's track record on security and bug issues, I really hope they don't change their minds. They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more.

> They should write exactly as much code as required and not one line more.

They already clearly don't do that.

I like how Adobe Lightroom [classic] displays names of dev and QA (and other?) team members in a splash screen on startup. Apparently at least Photoshop does the same[0]. I've always thought this is a nice way of giving little kudos to people behind SW.

It works the other way too - a long time a go I was brought into a particularly challenged SW project (e.g. when we still shipped desktop apps with splash screens), and among other things, I put forward a proposal that we will do exactly the same: let the whole world see who is behind the code. Unsurprisingly, motion was shot down, but I think the mere thought that we might still do it made everyone contribute better code. Maybe. Maybe not.

[0] https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/heroes-of-photoshop/

Since Photoshop 1.0 they have always had team credits, much like how TV shows have credits, not as a hidden Easter Egg.

This set the precedent and that probably can't be changed now with upsetting people. Maybe that is the trick, get in on version 1 with non hidden credits.

There was a move a few years ago to create humans.txt files for websites. This idea died but essentially it was an effort to accommodate credits into web design. Personally I would like to see cats.txt as an Easter Egg feature.

I think client easter eggs are different from OS easter eggs.

> the OS division has a "no Easter Eggs" policy.