Ex-Windows Boss dives into the shallow end of Music

Jim Allchin, Former Windows Boss and Windows Vista scapegoat (seen above), set March 17 as the launch date for his first album. Allchin always had a passion for music, even before getting his feet wet with Microsoft, so the fact that he’s devoting his time to music after Windows isn’t actually a surprise. The album itself, on the other hand, does attract some rather unusual looks. Interestingly titled “Enigma,” it has yet to be released on the wonders of Amazon, so I can’t give the best of reviews given that all which exists are a bunch of preview clippings. However, based on what already exists, here’s what I can say (directed at Jim):

• Jim, I don’t ever remember your voice being that high.
• The instrumentals aren’t bad. Some of these could be used elsewhere, which I’ll get to in a bit.
• The vocals, on the other hand, need some abusive assistance from Auto-Tune. Jim, don’t worry; everyone’s doing it. Seriously, everyone is doing it, which is why your vocals don’t sound as good. Everyone else’s are unrealistically perfect.
• Jim, please pull the hair back. Your cover shot makes you look like an escaped Arkham inmate.

All is not lost. First of all, there is a good amount of potential here. All he needs to do is drop his voice an octave or two, apply Auto-Tune and de-einsteinify his hair, which is all hopefully easy enough to do. However, if all else fails, he could go ahead and apply his instrumental efforts at making sounds for the next version of (ahem) Windows.