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To: steve-b
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine."

That's a good advertisement for a new OS -- sheesh!

14 posted on 09/01/2006 8:08:11 AM PDT by scott7278 (The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
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To: scott7278
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine."

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.

21 posted on 09/01/2006 8:18:34 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: scott7278
Talk about lame. How about needing to force users to listen to a sound to brand your OS. I think I'll stay with XP.
30 posted on 09/01/2006 8:31:17 AM PDT by Vision (God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
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