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. 
  
			
			
			
				I take it,  you don't really like Microsoft, do you, TB? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif) 
			
			
			
				  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!
  
			
			
			
				Speaking of which.......
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				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