View the score on <a href="http://musescore.com/tpenguinltg/goodbye_winclassic">MuseScore.com</a>.
This piece was created with <a href="http://musescore.org/">MuseScore</a> and rendered with Finale's synthgms.sf2 SoundFont.

This was an assignment completed Nov. 2012.

The inspiration for this piece came quite interestingly.
I was writing up an email rant about Microsoft taking out Windows Classic in Windows 8.
I pressed "Send", and I suddenly came up with a melody and chord structure.
I went to my keyboard to write it down.
I guess some of the best things are made in emotion, aren't they?

After a week or two, some lyrics came to me:
"Goodbye, Windows Classic,
So long my good friend
I've switched to you in all my years
But this is where it ends
"Oh, why, oh Microsoft,
Did you have to let go
In Windows 8 for Modern UI,
I will never know"

Or something like that. It's very rough.

Here's a challenge: can you find all the hidden Windows startup/shutdown sounds? There are six.
(I'll post the answer here after a few weeks, but in the meantime, see the <a href="http://musescore.com/tpenguinltg/goodbye_winclassic#comments">comments on MuseScore.com</a>.)

On September 7, 2013, <a href="http://sincerelypekky.wordpress.com/">Pekky</a> finished the lyrics for me.
It's funny, I was able to convince her to use Windows Classic for a while by making her a theme, but unfortunately, she switched back to Aero after I gave her the Aero version of the theme.

<b>Full lyrics by Pekky</b>
Goodbye, Windows Classic,
So long my good friend
I've switched to you in all my years
But this is where it ends

Oh, why, oh Microsoft,
Did you have to let go
In Windows 8 for Modern UI,
I will never know

Goodbye, Windows Classic
You were simple in design
Although some say that you were plain
To me you always to shined

Oh, why, oh Microsoft,
Did you start an 'upgrade'?
I do not need these fancy frames
In fact, I feel betrayed

Goodbye, Windows Classic,
I've always liked your speed
But fast you were, so fast, you left,
Me in desperate need

Oh, why, oh Microsoft,
Did you switch your interface?
It's only optimal for touch screens
I'm tired of Moore's pace

Oh, why, oh Microsoft,
Do I still think of you now?
I should done my angry phase
But I just don't know how

Goodbye, Windows Classic

tPenguinLTG