Windows Vista Vista Final Sound Scheme

Jim Allchin wrote:

P.S. -- here are a few interesting facts about the new Windows Vista Start-up sound.

The Windows Vista Startup sound:

. is made of dual ascending 'glassy' melodies played on top of a gentle fading Fripp 'AERO' Soundscape

. has two parallel melodies played in an intentional "Win-dows Vis-ta" rhythm

. consists of 4 chords, one for each color in the Windows flag

. is ~4 seconds long, end-to-end

. is a collaboration between contributors Robert Fripp (primary melody + Soundscape), Tucker Martine (rhythm) and Steve Ball (harmony and final orchestration)

See the complete blog entry: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/09/the-sounds-of-windows-vista.aspx

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A preview of the new Sounds:
http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=34791e54-ec34-4acb-818b-ff2b71d38115

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A Beta collection that should have been used: http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2006/10/30/windows-vista-sounds2.aspx

 

For all the time that was spent on these, I have two words:
They ****.

Most are barely any different than the XP ones.

I'd almost prefer these I think they are more creative.

 

Your link was in my "Beta collection" as humor.

I agree with you, but for Microsoft this is apparently a huge big deal.

 

Yes, I agree, that MS places a huge amount of energy into the sounds and I agree that they are indeed relatively important as they say, it will be played hundreds of millions or billions of times and have become almost a part of the culture. Pretty much everyone on the planet knows those tunes.

But I just do think that they could have come up with something a bit more 'snappy' perhaps. And Mr. Fripp certainly is no slouch when it comes to the guitar, so I'm a little disappointed.