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Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
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.."
Say what you will, but Windows is vastly superior to Linux on both desktops and servers. Get the facts, people.
...in the Microsoft Research building... you are allowed to use any platform you want
Yeah - it's easier to copy competitors' operating system features hands-on than it is with just pictures.
Only proves what a friend told me: the only justice in this life is poetic...
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
The day the music died.
Was when Rap and then Hip Hop became mainstream.
Ditto. What kind of company would keep buying Mac laptops for employees when it knew that those employees would need to buy an additional Windows license and install Bootcamp so that they could boot into Windows all the time? It's ludicrous just on the face of it.
Breakfast served all day!