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Windows 95 Turns 10

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-me-up dept.

ColdGrits writes "It's hard to believe it, but 10 short years ago today saw the launch of Windows '95. Here is an archive of the Washington Post's story on the day. As part of the launch, Microsoft paid $12,000,000 for the rights to use the Rolling Stones' song "Start Me Up" (containing the prophetic line 'You make a grown man cry'). "

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  1. Stones song by Mobile+Unit+of+the+G · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't forget... "You make a dead man come".

    (Not a G-rated comment, but neither was the song.)

  2. Ob. lyrics - Critical reading - Prophecies?! by zanderredux · · Score: 1, Redundant
    If you start me up
    If you start me up I'll never stop (lie: what about frequent BSODs?)
    If you start me up
    If you start me up I'll never stop
    I've been running hot (incidentally, I started OC'ing with W95)
    You got me ticking gonna blow my top (DLL hell anyone?)
    If you start me up
    If you start me up I'll never stop

    You make a grown man cry (definitely)
    Spread out the oil, the gasoline (when I burned these damn install floppies)
    I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
    Start it up

    If you start it up
    Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got (really, W95 didn't give much)
    I can't compete with the riders in the other heats (Linux still beats the crap out of it)
    If you rough it up
    If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up (hmm... pr0n?)

    Don't make a grown man cry
    My eyes dilate, my lips go green ("so, I *need* winsock?)
    My hands are greasy (doing repeated scandisks is tiresome)
    She's a mean, mean machine (mean to users, I guess)
    Start it up

    If start me up
    Give it all you got (it took a lot to keep it from BSOD'ing)
    You got to never, never, never stop (hopefully)
    Never, never
    Slide it up

    You make a grown man cry
    Ride like the wind at double speed (ha! OC'ing or doubledsk?)
    I'll take you places that you've never, never seen (indeed, that was my first experience with tech support)
    Start it up
    Love the day when we will never stop, never stop (when I got my hand into Linux)
    Never stop, never stop
    Tough me up (longhorn reference, maybe?) Never stop, never stop, never stop

    You, you, you make a grown man cry
    You, you make a dead man come (this one left as an exercise to the reader)
    You, you make a dead man come
  3. Original launch song... by doormat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    MS originally wanted to license REM's "Its the end of the world as we know it" but REM refused or something and it never went through.

    --
    The Doormat

    If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
  4. Re:Windows 95. by commo1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ME was less of an OS than 3.0. :)

    Microsoft themselves virtualy deny the existence of ME in most cases.

  5. The Stones sold out to the dark side... by Bob+Hearn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... and that's when I threw away my Stones CDs, and started boycotting them.

    I was never much of an REM fan, but to their credit, REM turned down Microsoft cold when they tried to get the rights to "It's the End of the World as We Know It".