Posted on 09/01/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by steve-b
Hmm, this is interesting. According to prominent former Microsoftie Robert Scoble, Microsoft's current plan is to make the Windows Vista startup sound a) unchangeable and b) unmutable. The reason for "a" is branding. Having a unified startup sound on all Vista PCs serves Microsoft well, and Microsoft's Steve Ball says users will benefit....
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Even if that were true and not a hastily contrived marketing cover-up, it's still not Microsoft's right to decide I MUST leave some diagnostic thing turned on whether I want to or not. It's my hardware.
The sound of a puking bird crashing into a blackboard.
Nice try, but installing Vista creates an electromagnetic field around your speakers, and if you try to turn them off, you get zapped. If your speakers are not turned on when installing Vista, then Vista will turn them on for you, like it or not. :O)
Upon installation, Vista creates little tiny, unattachable, undeleteable speakers inside of your hard drive. You can never escape the sound. :O)
It will be hacked faster than it takes for me to type out this reply.
The new season of "The View" started this morning?
"You can never escape the sound."
that might be true if they run the sound thru the tiny speaker in the hardware case......the one that currently beeps once at boot-up (I think it comfirms RAM is sensed)
I repudiate their "thinking". They fail to realize I'm a party to this transaction (actually the more important party) and I too have the right to have policies.
Microsoft will probably eventually say "this is such a great idea, we'll introduce it as an update to Windows XP!"
yes, but I bet Microsoft will be able to change this sound at will remotely. In fact, it won't be long before we are targeted with advertising wia startup sound spam... bastards. grrrrr.
I got a "File is not available for download" message
I bought a new computer and needed to install "my" Microsoft Office 2003 on it and take it off the old one. The problem was, I was missing the product key; it was not on the CD case, and it was encrypted on the old computer.
I was told that they were going to charge me $10 to give me my key. I balked; it wasn't the issue of $10, but the fact that I've already bought the stupid program. So I went out on the Internet and found a free program that finds the encrypted key for you.
Thus is the problem with Microsoft's strategy; they find new ways to make you mad.
add me to the tech ping please?
Not on my computer, they won't. I'm the owner of al software that runs on my machine.
No thanks; I'll keep WIN-XP Pro on all my home and office machines and bypass the Vista crap/garbage/trash.
Shove it, MS!
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