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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To get the full install experience without danger to your primary OS, get yourself a second hard drive, and install it there. For my laptop, I simply bought a second drive and caddy and keep the test OS on it (you can do the same for a desktop computer, with a little more work to install the drive tray). That way I can play with it as much as I want without worrying about accidently messing up my primary OS...if I break something (and I usually do), I just wipe that disk and start over. It's a great way to learn. When I get tired, I pop the other disk back in.
Exactly :-)
If you're talking about NeoOffice, I'll stick with X11. NeoOffice is slow as molasses.
Oh, Vista is actually going to come with audio drivers? I thought they decided to dump audio compatibility to meet their ship date.
No, it's the real thing.
Yeah, I tend to re-author all my DVDs and put the case away. Having a young niece was murder on my DVD collection till I got smart and only leave out the copies, ripped with DVDFab re-authored in DVD Shrink as an ISO. She tends to wreck or completely cover one with peanut butter per trip. I just re-burn for a quarter. I find it's also helpful since youngins have such a short attention span, the movie starts immediately.
A pair of side-cutters will mute that sucker just fine.
Too late! The dreaded controlling forces of SP 2 are already a part of later versions of Windows XP.
this is pure stupidity.
It will just mean people will put a headphone jack plug into the hole (probably 99 cents at radio shack for any adapter)
When you turn on your laptop in a conference you don't want people to see you are running a laptop.
Microsoft should focus on creating the sound of happy customers.
Obviously Microsoft found a way to turn of the sound of a happy customer.
Im running Windows Vista Pre-RC1 right now... Its pretty nice.. LOTS BETTER THAN BETA2, looks like Redmond has been doing something right. :)
On my Inspiron, the mute button doesn't seem to respond until after the startup sting has come and gone.
Oh No! I got an Altec Lansing set that has an active board that's not really isolated. Ergo, I can move
wires around to pickup, or not pickup, an FM station, even when the "power" switch is off.
"Never, ever get the first edition of a Microsoft product."
I found that out with Windows XP. What a nightmare! I even ran the check beforehand, to no avail.
I think it's got more value as a status indicator. You can use the sounds to determine what's going on... from several doors down the hallway.
Thinkpads make a unique sound when they come on and off an external power supply. You hear a bunch of these in conference rooms just before and after a meeting.
XP and 2K default startup sounds are different so you can tell them apart... but they're still user-customizable.
This is just one more example (as if we need any more) of Microsoft taking choices away from their customers.
Okay, that was funny!
But you got one thing wrong. They would charge $2.99 just like the cellular providers do! That's the good side of being a (near) monopoly.
I notice an article fairly recently (within the last few days) that said people were not embracing phone-based music players. I think the $2.99 a tune charge is a big reason why.
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Probably. I have a cell phone. That's all it is. It doesn't play music, take pictures, or record video. It looks ugly by today's standards, but so what? My phone is not a status symbol. It's a tool to keep me connected for personal and business reasons.
Oh yeah?
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