![]() It brought to mind the ad campaign when Windows 95 was released and the exorbitant amount of cash paid to those living statues of rock antiquity, The Rolling Stones, to Start us all up. The Sound was created by the eminent and well-known composer of aural wallpaper for airports and other bland spaces, Brian Eno. It surprised me to examine the properties of the Microsoft Sound and discover that the author of the sound isn't some Microsoftie, locked away in a room in Redmond with a Visual C++ laptop in one hand and a synthesizer in the other. ![]() But there's something different about the Microsoft Sound - something eerie, disturbing, and disconcerting. ![]() I first got a look at Windows 95 three years ago and the little sound, heard hundreds, perhaps thousands of times since then, has become as familiar and mundane as the other audio of my daily life - the alarm clock, the ring of my telephone, the sound of my upstairs apartment neighbor working out on some tortuous exercise machine. This little sound file, which plays each time Windows 95 starts, is familiar to all users of the operating system (at least those users that have a sound card on their PC's). The other day, poking around my computer, I happened to click on the Properties dialogue box of The Microsoft Sound. Turn on javascript to use the drop-down menus.Ĭoolcatdaddy MARCH 1998 - by Randy A.
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