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Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note

Posted by timothy on from the too-insane-to-ignore-forever dept.

theodp writes "Remember Mr. Microphone? If you thought music couldn't get worse, think again. Perhaps with the help of R&D tax credits, Microsoft Research has spawned Songsmith, software that automatically creates a tinny, childish background track for your singing. And as bad as the pseudo-infomercial was, the use of the product in the wild is likely to be even scarier, as evidenced by these Songsmith'ed remakes of music by The Beatles, The Police, and The Notorious B.I.G.."

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  1. Re:Haha yeah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is my favorite to show the "fair" comparision

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/windows-server-comparison-screencasts-and-webcasts.mspx

    They have a screenshot of usermangament and policies compared to windows server 2008 versus SElinux

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/D/D/EDD40B84-7889-4B7F-9EEE-D9D690751DB2/selinux_features.wmv

    I think they found the most obscure ways to use SElinux to put up on the screencast.