[steve-b]

Microsoft's marketing department has metastasized into a cancer on the entire company.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

No thanks; I'll keep WIN-XP Pro on all my home and office machines and bypass the Vista crap/garbage/trash.

Shove it, MS!

[shorty_harris]

I don't understand how they can do this. The startup sound is just a .wav file stored on the hard disk somewhere. On my windows machine, I found this file, and replaced it with something more to my liking (an excited chimpanzee). You could also replace it with a silent .wav file...

[LiberationIT]

Macs used to do this; do they still?

[HAL9000]

The Vista startup sound was designed by Robert Fripp. It may be the only good thing in the whole operating system.

[Dont Mention the War]

Oh, Vista is actually going to come with audio drivers? I thought they decided to dump audio compatibility to meet their ship date.

[dljordan]

A pair of side-cutters will mute that sucker just fine.

[longtermmemmory]

this is pure stupidity.

It will just mean people will put a headphone jack plug into the hole (probably 99 cents at radio shack for any adapter)

When you turn on your laptop in a conference you don't want people to see you are running a laptop.

Microsoft should focus on creating the sound of happy customers.

[Echo Talon]

Im running Windows Vista Pre-RC1 right now... Its pretty nice.. LOTS BETTER THAN BETA2, looks like Redmond has been doing something right. :)