|  | | 
11-23-2006, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom | | | Microsoft Windows Designers has a bass player?
Sign in to disble this ad
As you probably all know.. Windows XP had a bass as one of the few default user images available with the operating system.
Check out Windows Vista's user images... 
Coincidence? I think not! 
My guess is that someone in microsoft is a bass player. From the number of people who play guitar compared to bass if they were going to put an electric guitar/bass guitar as a user image just for a music theme for an image then surely an electric guitar would have made sense to use as an image rather than a bass because less people play bass. Seems someone is feeling the groove in microsoft.
Last edited by Pugz : 11-23-2006 at 05:27 PM.
|
11-23-2006, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: DFW, Texas | | | yes. And i believe Windows XP has a Tobias if im not mistaken....could be tho, not a very big pic...
__________________
Ebay 4-stringer & Douglas Fretless 6-stringer
Silvertone(?) 200BXL amp & cab.
|
11-23-2006, 06:09 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Makes sense. 2 bass related icons in 2 successive OSes.
Maybe Bill Gates likes to slap the funky broom from time to time ? |
11-23-2006, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: DFW, Texas | | lets all hope not...he'll try to take over this too....Microsoft Talk Bass....not cool lol 
__________________
Ebay 4-stringer & Douglas Fretless 6-stringer
Silvertone(?) 200BXL amp & cab.
|
11-23-2006, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Indiana | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by LesClaypoolJR yes. And i believe Windows XP has a Tobias if im not mistaken....could be tho, not a very big pic... | I've always assumed that it was a Tobias. |
11-23-2006, 07:41 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | High tech tends to have more than it's share of bass players. I am not at all surprised that a windows developer could be a bass player. |
11-23-2006, 07:54 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | But the bass was called a "guitar" in XP.
__________________ Fender Dlx Jaguar Std Jazz Fretless Am Dlx Precision Kustom GrooveBass1200 Avatar B210neo B212 Questionable Quintet
|
11-23-2006, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jazzin' But the bass was called a "guitar" in XP. | Simply a smoke screen. They might call this new symbol an "F Clef" so as not to draw attention...
What would really impress me would be a Ritter as an icon! |
11-25-2006, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | There must be a Bassist on the team. For the Vista system sounds they got Robert Fripp to record it, no guitarist would ever choose Robert Fripp!!!! Could you imagine Steve Via or Stevie Ray doing the startup and shutdown sounds?!?!?!
__________________
Gallien-Krueger Club #695
myspace.com/johnadybassist
|
11-25-2006, 09:51 AM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Impossible. Windows couldn't proceed that many notes. |
11-25-2006, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Cerb I've always assumed that it was a Tobias. | Looks like a Growler to me!
I chose the bass clef for my Vista admin icon. I gave my GF the kitten.  |
11-25-2006, 01:24 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: WI | | | Might be off topic here... but is Vista any good? |
11-25-2006, 01:36 PM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | For people who care, it looks better.
It also eats a lot more ressources than XP.
There are a few added gizmos.
Maybe they did something really good in the guts of the system that helps developers and all but as far as I'm concerned, it brings nothing interesting. |
11-25-2006, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad For people who care, it looks better.
It also eats a lot more ressources than XP.
There are a few added gizmos.
Maybe they did something really good in the guts of the system that helps developers and all but as far as I'm concerned, it brings nothing interesting. |
more ressources than xp holy %^&* what was bill thinking 
__________________
[witty signature here]
|
11-25-2006, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orlando, FL | | | How/Where did you get Vista already?
__________________
Eric
TriadicalSounds.com
|
11-25-2006, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | I have RC1. I'm a MCP, and I signed up long ago for beta testing. I should be getting RC2 soon, perhaps in the next week or so.
Vista IS a resource hog, but if you have the hardware to run it, it is pretty nice. Takes a little "gettin' usta"...things aren't where my fingers think they are, but it is pretty powerful. I also run Office 2007 on it... |
11-26-2006, 09:34 PM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad For people who care, it looks better.
It also eats a lot more ressources than XP.
There are a few added gizmos.
Maybe they did something really good in the guts of the system that helps developers and all but as far as I'm concerned, it brings nothing interesting. | For all reading this thread, I'd suggest an equally biased though more qualified read at a place like the lazy admin. http://thelazyadmin.com/
no offence, but the fanboy stuff gets a little old.
__________________
aka Blisshead.
|
12-05-2006, 10:16 AM
| | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pugz  As you probably all know.. Windows XP had a bass as one of the few default user images available with the operating system.
Check out Windows Vista's user images...
Coincidence? I think not!
My guess is that someone in microsoft is a bass player. From the number of people who play guitar compared to bass if they were going to put an electric guitar/bass guitar as a user image just for a music theme for an image then surely an electric guitar would have made sense to use as an image rather than a bass because less people play bass. Seems someone is feeling the groove in microsoft. | that is way old they had an actual 4 string bass guitar with maple top. |
12-14-2006, 09:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chicago, IL | | | i have that 4 string on my XP.
__________________
Christian Praise & Worship Bassist Club Member #321
|
12-24-2006, 02:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alberta,Canada | | ...same here 
__________________
"Its easier ask for forgiveness then it is to get permission"-Stuarts Law of Retroaction
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
