So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the sound

From Off Base, today (at http://www.majorgeeks.com)

Who cares, I hear you say.

Us longtime Windows users remember well, Microsoft using the Rolling Stones song "Start Me Up" as the soundtrack for the advertising campaign that launched Windows 95. :major

Link is http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/what-microsoft-paid-stones-help-launch-window

Another computer mystery solved. :-D :-D

Any longtime Windows users out there, especially DOS oldies?

Bazza

 

Re: So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the s

I remember refusing to use Windows 3.1 because Dos worked just fine. Ahh the screaming fast 386.

 

Re: So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the s

I go back to DOS v3.1 and DOS 3.11 (WFW), then 4.0, 4.01, 5.0 and 6.0 :-D

Bazza

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Re: So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the s

Ya, Win 3.1 sucked real bad and DOS was just fine for my needs, plus it took up valuable real estate on my 20MB HDD.

 

Re: So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the s

20MB was plenty then:-D

 

Re: So what did Microsoft really pay The Rolling Stones to use "Start Me Up" as the s

DOS v4 sucked as well.
MS soon released v4.01 :-D
I too well remember my first hard drive.
A 20 megabyte (NOT GIGABYTE--to you younguns :-D ) Seagate.

Bazza