Kaleid on 12/11/2006 at 10:36
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15656246/) 18 months for that crap?
Not that I really care, in my WinXP SP2 ghost file (reinstall in 1 minute) they are turned off anyway...
Aerothorn on 12/11/2006 at 17:31
This is why you shouldn't spend 18 months on tiny things. Just pick something and it's likely to be just as good (or bad) as whatever all your years of focus-testing gets you.
Of course with a product like Vista, any sound with any distinction is likely to bother someone who doesn't like that 'genre', so it kind of has to be soulless.
Woulda been better if they just recorded a bunch of different ones and you selected your genre - I want Bebop Vista!
Printer's Devil on 12/11/2006 at 19:38
Everything sounds pretty tinny and derivative to me--I would never have guessed a skilled musician took 18 months to produce them. Mind you, a tightly organized Microsoft project is not too likely to be a garden of creativity, regardless of who they hired.
Para?noid on 12/11/2006 at 19:45
It boggles me as well. Fripp has been peddling the same E-Bow based guitar synth crap for ages and yet for some reason this shit takes years to produce? With all that equipment and prior knowledge? I love the way, when given access to proper, professional equipment, people melt into puddles of useless shit
Aerothorn on 12/11/2006 at 19:50
The problem is that Microsoft has too much goddamn money - as noted, they cannot figure out what to DO with all of it - they funnel a lot off to charity (Gates Foundation and a million sponsorships), and they spends tons on R&D, but they still have a ton left over, so they do crazy things like buy back tons of their stock and throw millions of dollars at making 4-second sounds.
It would be much better spent as dividends for stockholders:)
Para?noid on 12/11/2006 at 21:31
or people who are genuinely suffering you capitalist whore
nah just kidding aerothorn you have grown in my estimation of you immensely and i consider you a friend just don't talk about linux
doctorfrog on 13/11/2006 at 00:00
The sounds aren't bad, they're a slight upgrade to the current XP sounds, while still retaining a recognizable XP-ness. Like they took the transparency effects from the GUI and somehow applied them to the old sounds. It'll give anyone who either doesn't know how to or prefers not to change the default sounds the impression that they have something new, while retaining the familiarity of the old sounds. Those of us preferring something custom will want to change the sounds anyway, so MS doesn't need to worry about us. As for haters, well, not much one can do about them anyway.
I'd say mission accomplished.
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