[Still Thinking]

"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine."

Even if that were true and not a hastily contrived marketing cover-up, it's still not Microsoft's right to decide I MUST leave some diagnostic thing turned on whether I want to or not. It's my hardware.

[scott7278]

That's the problem with Microsoft's thinking -- in their business model, they own the software and we merely pay for the "privilege" to use it.