However, I’m not sure why they removed the login/logoff sounds, maybe they did so just to be consistent with startup/shutdown sound removal. Windows 8 had a new audio jingle in C:\Windows\Media that was never played, so I guess that maybe this is the startup sound that Jensen is mentioning in his video: Īlso, I remember reading an interesting article on your blog about how the shutdown sound got killed too: – Sadly, again for performance reasons. Thanks for this interesting read and video. Harris promises he’d share the startup sound initially created for Windows 8 version of the in an upcoming video. However, the Windows Fundamentals team, which was optimizing the operating system's boot time, had already gotten rid of all the code needed to play this sound at boot, so the sound was permanently removed of faster startup speeds. Microsoft actually attempted to bring back the Windows 8 startup sound at one point. Harris says he later began to regret removing sound from the operating system. This incident gave him an idea that the sound should be removed from the OS. Harris also mentioned that "a really bad feature for a device designed to be used in a person’s most private and intimate spaces at any time of day and night.", citing his personal experience of not wanting to open his MacBook at night while watching over his sleeping newborn daughter. Also, the company began planning for the Surface platform, and that assumption shifted primarily to mobile devices when the team began porting the OS to ARM-based hardware. The company has begun monitoring how people use their computers, Harris said, with more people using laptop computers like laptops in multiple locations. The main reason is development of Windows on ARM and the increasingly mobile use of PCs. Harris names the number of reasons of the startup sound removal. That was since Windows 3.1 and ended with Windows 7, making Windows 8 the first "silent" release. You may remember that older Windows version had their unique startup music that was played once the OS finished its boot sequence.
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