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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