IP: Microsoft and Mozart

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:43:27 -0800
To: farber () central cis upenn edu
From: Sid Karin <skarin () ucsd edu>


Dave,


This came to me third hand and I can't vouch for the accuracy, but
somehow it just sounds right.


                ......Sid








> The genius in the advertising dept. at Microsoft has done it this time.
> Anybody seen the IE ads on TV lately? The one with a very effective choral
> music playing in the background?
>
> Well, the background music is the Confutatis Maledictis from Mozart's
> Requiem (Mass for the dead).
>
> And the words of the final blast of music which accompanies "Where do you
> want to go today?" are saying, "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus
> addictis...," which means, "The damned and accused are convicted to the
> flames of hell."








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