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Hi - Cort just told me on SLSK that brian eno created the microsoft sound effects... is this, in fact, the truth? And what kind of fee system was employed if this IS fact? |
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if it is true, i think he would have been given a one off commission payment. Microsoft would not fall victim of the arse reaming that they gave IBM |
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why isnt cort here? |
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i am - but there isnt much i can add to this thread. |
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he created the opening sound when windows 95 started up. not sure how the royalties issue works.. all i know is he did it. |
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honestly, it wouldn't have been a one off payment - Microsoft got IBM to sign a legally binding contract so that Microsoft received a certain amount of money for every PC that IBM shipped with their Microsoft Basic. They got millions from IBM, and i don't think IBM were very happy. Microsoft would be smarter than to pay someone a royalty for every copy of Windows 95 (or whatever Microsoft OS) sold. If there was a royalty for every copy sold, the guy who made the sound(s) would be able to retire his grandkids before they were born! |
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"honestly, it wouldn't have been a one off payment" that should say it WOULD have been |
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I read that he was paid $1million to make the apple chime, that seems unlikely if he did the microsoft one... |
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yep that's also what I've heard. |
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yeah i only ever heard he did the start-up sound for Win '95. |
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you are defineatly not seen here very ofthen.. I didn't even know you were a mod! where's your avatar man! |
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I expect that would have been done under a work-for-hire contract. BTW, IBM's big mistake was not to pay Microsoft a fee for each unit sold - their mistake was to allow Microsoft to license Dos to other computer hardware manufacturers. At the time, no one else was making compatible PCs, and I guess IBM couldn't foresee that someone would reverse-engineer their BIOS and start making clones. Sheez, Microsoft didn't even write Dos - they bought it from someone in Seattle. It was originally called Qdos. Talk about buy low-sell high. |
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yeh but the thing that kick started it all was back in the days of Basic, when IBM did pay Microsoft for every unit sold :) yep, Quick and Dirty Operating System was not coded by M$ :) |
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I remember Qdos! It was awesome! |
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i always wanted to get my hands on a copy of 4DOS i could never find it though :( |
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the secret of success is constancy to purpose |
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Oh, you're pulling my tail, good sir. |
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That was IBM's fault...Bill Gates wanted to sell the rights to IBM and IBM refused stating that they beleived there was no market for home computers...so they suggested that it be done on a license based agreement. Obviously they didn't enter into an exclusive licensing agreement because they didn't find the home market important. The rest is history. |
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I am NOT! I used to write in ... oh wait! I was thinking of QBASIC! How embarassing! |
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I used to play that game in qbasic, the one with the big monkey. |
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oh right.......... yeh that'd make sense, because at the time IBM were primarily a mainframe producer, and as you rightfully said, were not that interested in the home computing market :) thanks |
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