What's up with the "Beep" driver in Windows 7

[Mr. Analog]

You know that annoying PC speaker "beep"? Apparently there was some difficulty porting that over to Windows 7, but for interesting reasons! Take a look at this fun piece of Windows history

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2010/01/04/what-s-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7.aspx

[Lazybones]

Yet another reason to like windows 7 ?

[Thorin]

lol

If only people hadn't used Beep(), then Microsoft could have quietly slipped it out of there ages ago.

[Darren Dirt]

*beep* microsoft... whenever I change the volume using the "Volume Control" setting it beeps (but the "Wave" setting it does not, *beep* you Windows dev team...)