March 11, 2008 9:31 AM PDT
Windows 98 and XP make sweet music
I thought I would start Tuesday off with some lighter fare. Some of you may have seen this, but there is a YouTube video of music composed using the start-up sounds from Windows XP and Windows 98.
I'm sure it's not the biggest challenge facing Vista, but it is a small example of people finding utility from and an affinity for Microsoft's older Windows versions. What do you think, is it an anthem for XP's enduring quality or a swan song for an operating system on the precipice of extinction? I've included the video below.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Richard Wagner
Joseph Haydn
Johannes Brahms
Franz Schubert
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
sounds of pure concentrated evil. They should have used this
music whenever Darth Vader was in a scene in Star Wars, that's
what it's appropriate for.
Sorry, I guess I just like myself to much to subject myself to this
kind of pain and agony. Maybe I'll do one with GOOD music -
from Ubuntu!
;-)
- Before Vista shipped...
- by Walt Connery March 12, 2008 4:02 AM PDT
- ...folks like you simply didn't have enough negative words in their vernacular to use when gossiping about XP, so you repeated yourself often...;) About the only thing you ever said about Win98 during XP's tenure was "good riddance."
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(6 Comments)After Vista shipped, however, and after you discovered so little about Vista in which you could poke holes, including your favorite pre-Vista XP whipping-boy topic of "security," you fell back to a habit you still practice to this day: dusting off Microsoft's earlier, oft-criticized OS versions of Windows and trying to pass them off to the world as the Holy Grail of operating systems--as though you'd never heaped anything on them before except praise.
I don't think you could possibly make your unprofessional bias any clearer to people like me who have been using Vista on a daily basis for the past year and liking it a lot. I like it so much, in fact, that when I encounter an XP installation these days the adjectives that come to mind are "crude and rude"...;) Vista has provided me with absolutely no incentive to look back to XP and *of course* Win98.
All things must pass, however, and I note that during the the transition period between the classic Mac OS and OSX that Mac "graybeards" were quite pointed, too, in their preference for earlier Apple OSes over OSX. Your indirect Vista bashing is quite amusing to read...;)