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Re: [News] No Choice in Vista, Music Mandatory

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 09:45 \__

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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Paul Hovnanian P.E. ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 02:52 \__
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Vista start-up music compulsory
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | The almighty Microsoft has decided that guitarist Robert Fripp?s work
>>>> | on the opening tune for Vista is so good, it will be compulsory and
>>>> | won't be able to be switched off.
>>>> |
>>>> | Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video
>>>> | Excellence team told punters that Windows Vista should present a
>>>> | "common, and beautiful, face to the world." In other words, Microsoft
>>>> | has spent shedloads on its corporate image and you are darn well going
>>>> | to appreciate it.
>>>> `----
>>> 
>>> They should have gone with 'Rhapsody in Blue (Screen)'.
>>  
>> Isn't that like 12 minutes long? The O/S wouldn't keep standing that long.
>> 
> 
> You could keep it playing whilst you log in and wait for everything to
> start up.  If you played it twice over, then you'd be pretty sure the
> machine would be ready to take instructions from the user.

In that case, you could also play the Requiem on shutdown. The whole thing!
And it's worth having some specialised music for the installation. It is,
after all, a routinely-recurring procedure. Sure happens more often than a
Linux users happens to see his/her bootloader... 

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