Vista startup sound

[stash]

For those of you that haven't heard the new sounds yet, here's a piece from NPR with Steve Ball from Microsoft, where they demo the new startup sound.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6466901

And here's a post from Jim Allchin about the process behind the new sound.

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windo...11/09/the-sounds-of-windows-vista.aspx

 

[Nick5324]

A comparison of XP and Vista system sounds.

LInk

 

[f1sh3r]

ive been wondering whats taken them so long... theyve been working on the sound scheme.

 

[Shawn]

i like xp's sounds better.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Shawn
i like xp's sounds better.

I agree, hopefully they will give us a "Classic" sound theme.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: Shawn
i like xp's sounds better.

Gah. Some of the sounds in Windows XP are so obnoxious, especially if you leave your speakers turned up pretty high. I'm glad they got rid of the "thud"-type sounds.

 

[Canterwood]

Sounds gay................not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[stash]

The comparison in the clip of the startup sounds for 95, 2000, XP and Vista was pretty interesting. I had forgotten that 2000 had such a crazy startup sound.

 

[Pepsi90919]

wow, a whole four notes took them that long. go microsoft.

 

[tatteredpotato]

With all the buzz i was expecting something a little more..... substantial. I think like most things, over time i will grow to like it, sorta like how at first I didn't think i could get used to calling an OS Vista, but now I kinda like the name. The sounds are much less in your face, they do what they need to, convey a message without accidently waking up everyone in your house at 1 am when you turn you computer on.

 

[Noema]

Not bad. I always disable all sounds except incoming mail in my OSes anyway. Sounds become incredibly annoying after a couple of weeks.

 

[IEC]

I either disable all sounds, or replace them with custom ones... then again, even custom ones are obnoxious. The worst would have to be a startup sound of "My life for Aiur" - who even does that? :disgust:

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: f1sh3r
ive been wondering whats taken them so long... theyve been working on the sound scheme.

That and the BSODs.:laugh: