Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Microsoft has found a new champion for the Windows operating system: the deconstructionist and sample-based music maker Girl Talk, who appears in Microsoft's "I'm a PC" commercial below. As Buzzfeed puts it, "Microsoft finally found someone cool to admit they're a PC." Of course, this being Microsoft, there's a way to make fun. Sure enough, it turns out that AudioMulch , the software Girl Talk (a.k.a. Greg Gillis) uses on stage, won't run on Windows Vista unless your admin settings are set a certain way. [...]