Do you miss the sound of Windows at startup? In this video they explain the reasons to delete startup music from Windows 8

A few days ago we discussed in an article about those forgotten sounds that we heard when using a PC. Those noises from the floppy drive or without going any further, the music of Windows every time it started. A sound that passed away with the arrival of Windows 8 and is now when we know the reason for its disappearance

And it has been Jensen Harris, Director of Program Management for the Windows User Experience team for much of his career, who has offered an explanation of the Why since Windows 8 our PC doesn't sound in that harmonic way every time Windows starts.

A sound that passed away

A piece of news echoed in Windows Central and in which Harris refers to that sound that has accompanied us from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7and that with Windows 8 it passed away.

Jensen Harris dedicates in a YouTube video (this is the link, an explanation for the disappearance of the startup audio in Windows A video lasting almost a quarter of an hour in which he reviews the origins of computing, arriving at Xerox in the 70s up to the launch of Windows 8.

Regarding the removal of Windows audio, the explanation is surprising since it is not only related to optimizations and improvements of functioning.The reason for removing the startup melody is that the noise could be annoying (he experienced it personally) realizing that Windows was not going to be just a desktop operating system in enterprise environments.

With a Windows that was already present on laptops and would reach tablets or mobile phones, a sound every time you log in could be quite an inconvenienceAnd that's why they decided to eliminate it with Windows 8. In fact, he admits that the audio that he never got to use, he still has and that in the future he may reveal it.

But in those 15 minutes of video this is not the only revelation and thus, for example, he comments that Microsoft began developing the Surface there around 2008, long before we had news about the first models that later hit the market. He even comments on how the design of the start button and the small separation had more than well-founded reasons.

The truth is that Windows 8 went down in history, among other reasons, It is not a highly praised version of Windows, for being the first Windows without music that reached users. In fact, systems like macOS do still have a startup sound. Are you one of those who miss that sound or prefer the silent mode?

Via | Windows Central