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11-11-2006, 08:30 PM
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Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
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Some musicians spend 18 months  working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.
Of course, this isn't just any four-second clip. It's the sound — a soft da-dum, da-dumm, with a lush fade-out — that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.
To set the right tone — clean, simple, but with "some long-term legs," according to Microsoft's Steve Ball — the software maker recruited musician Robert Fripp.
Fripp, best known for his work with the '70s rock band King Crimson, recorded hours of his signature layered, guitar-driven sound for the project, under the close direction of Ball and others at Microsoft. Then, it was Ball's job to sort through those hours of live recordings to suss out just the right few seconds.
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11-11-2006, 08:33 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
Are u kidding
18months and that to for those sounds
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11-11-2006, 08:34 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
18 Months very long time !
Thanks for the info !
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11-11-2006, 10:48 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
They should hire any Indian musician. It'll be done only in 18 second here. 
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11-11-2006, 11:05 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
They really took a lot of time for it.
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11-11-2006, 11:50 PM
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Broken In
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
AR Rahman should give the music 
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12-11-2006, 10:33 AM
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The Devil
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
Our Himesh Reshmiyan should have been hired for this. Vista startup sound would have been oooooooooooooooooooo......
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12-11-2006, 11:40 AM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
why not hire anu malik he is a gud copier
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12-11-2006, 05:54 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
so did tht delay vista 
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12-11-2006, 10:21 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
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Originally Posted by blackpearl
Our Himesh Reshmiyan should have been hired for this. Vista startup sound would have been oooooooooooooooooooo......
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lol...
AR should have made it.....
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13-11-2006, 11:52 AM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
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Originally Posted by blackpearl
Our Himesh Reshmiyan should have been hired for this. Vista startup sound would have been oooooooooooooooooooo......
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lol
even the virus'es would be scared of the start up music then
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15-11-2006, 09:05 PM
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Right Off the Assembly Line
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
Thankz for Info
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15-11-2006, 09:09 PM
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Livin' in the ghetto
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
18 Months man ... they could have hired some indian composers but obviously the sounds would then be traced to some song from some unknown foreign singer ..
Imagine "Tera Tera Tera Suroor" in place of the normal windows startup sound ... wow that'll be cool ... Should Try
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15-11-2006, 09:19 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
hey, can i change the windows XP welcome sound to windows vista's?
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15-11-2006, 09:51 PM
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Re: Wanna Know: How Microsoft Chose New Windows Sounds ?
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Originally Posted by shashank_digitreader
hey, can i change the windows XP welcome sound to windows vista's?
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It can be done. Not only Vista sound, but any sound of your choice!
1. First convert the sound to 'WAV' format and save it.
2. Start>Control Panel>Sounds and Devices>Sounds Tab
3. Look in Program events for 'Start Sounds'
4. Select it and click Browse.
5. Browse to the saved 'WAV' file and click OK
6. Repeat the same for 'Exit Windows' to your 'WAV' file.
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