I feel old now, as I remember this music pre-dating even Windows 98, arriving with an early release of Internet Explorer.cdd wrote: ↑Tue 08 Mar, 2022 14.15 Relatedly, the mystery of that Windows XP OOBE (title.wma) theme came from - which I must have Googled every year since 2001 - was solved a couple of years ago, with this upload.
It wasn't written for Windows XP at all, and rather was just a track they had lying around since Windows 98.
Windows 9 is now Windows 10
There is a video about this track and it's origins on YouTube - the composer died recently.cdd wrote: ↑Tue 08 Mar, 2022 14.15 Relatedly, the mystery of that Windows XP OOBE (title.wma) theme came from - which I must have Googled every year since 2001 - was solved a couple of years ago, with this upload.
It wasn't written for Windows XP at all, and rather was just a track they had lying around since Windows 98.
The more interesting one is the 'Welcome to Windows 98' music, which apparently was part of a longer track which has never seen the light of day.