The 4-second piece of music for Vista was made in 18 months

When the latest Windows operating system appeared later this month, Vista's prelude will quickly become a familiar sound to welcome the new working day of about 200 million computer users in 2007 alone.

If you consider the "life expectancy" of Windows Vista, this melody in the next few years may be more popular than the song Happy Birthday.

Steve Ball, the Vista Program Manager, has formed a team of 20 composers, sound technicians, engineers and developers to complete the music for 18 months. Among the participants were Pat Mastelotto, an audio processing expert who won Oscar Randy Thom and musician Tucker Martine.

Four people belong to the Vista development team: Steve Ball, Allison Dew, Tjeerd Hoek and Jenny Lam (clockwise).

They gave about 500 chords with all sorts of different shades, some spectacular, elaborate, some unique, bizarre . Once, when Martine murmured according to the riff "clap-clap clap-clap ", he thought of" Win-dows Vis-ta ".

Four chords start Windows Vista.

The songwriting team that believes that peaceful melody will be what PC users around the world want to hear. " Users will be waiting for the smooth melody to sound, not the sounds that give high attention ," Ball said.

As soon as they proposed the three most pleasing pieces of music to Jim Allchin, co-director of Windows, he chose Tuck Martine's clear melody because it was also made up of four chords, representing four colors of Windows Vista window.

Users can compare boot music, reminders, delete files . between Windows XP and Windows Vista here (some people think that Vista sound is too "gentle").

TN (articles and photos: FastCompany )