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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Nov 12 06 07:29

Title: Only Microsoft....
Post by: TehBorken on Nov 12 06 07:29
Only Microsoft would spend 18 MNONTHS coming up with a startup sound for Vista. That's right, 18 months. Most artists can put out an album or two in that time. Microsoft came up with...[span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"]3.75 seconds of sound[/span], which you can hear at the link below.

[a href="vny!://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15656246/"]vny!://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15656246/[/a]

Microsoft: Bringing productivity to new levels of despair.
 
Title: Re: Only Microsoft....
Post by: Lise on Nov 12 06 02:08
I take it,  you don't really like Microsoft, do you, TB? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
Title: Re: Only Microsoft....
Post by: TehBorken on Nov 12 06 03:01
  Lise wrote:
I take it,  you don't really like Microsoft, do you, TB? [img style="font-style: italic;" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif[/img]

Lol, that would be a fair assessment.

Microsoft: Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow!
 
Title: Re: Only Microsoft....
Post by: Lise on Nov 12 06 03:34
Speaking of which.......

  (//vny!://i15.tinypic.com/4gsnrdl.jpg)
Title: Re: Only Microsoft....
Post by: Sportsdude on Nov 12 06 03:51
Funny thing when I think of Seattle I think

Borders

Microsoft

Boeing

Starbucks

  any other big companies I'm missing? Seattle sure has a lot but then again Vancouver's got EA Sports

  only thing we got here is

Monsanto

Boeing - military wing

Lucent Technology

Charter Communications

Anhueser Busch