Mandatory Startup Sound in Vista
While I was reading varies sites, I came across an interesting article on Scobleizer, Robert Scoble's blog. It seems that Microsoft intends to hardwire the startup sound in Vista. That's right... you have no say... you can't disable it, you can't turn it off... even if your audio is muted... this sound will still play. They say the solution to this is to turn down/off your speakers... This seems like an annoyance to me. The one thing Microsoft has never been able to do is come up with half-way decent sounds... They're usually fairly awful.
I'm generally fairly supportive of Microsoft. I have a buddy who loves to attack and bash Microsoft for their privacy concerns and legal practices and I usually defend them, but how do I defend this... I own the computer, I should have complete control over it... One of their excuses is that they've done this with the X-Box... There's a big difference between a PC and a Gaming Console.
I really hope that Microsoft reconsiders this... Not only will they lose a good chunk of the IT population over this... geeks want control. They'll also, IMO, lose corporations... I think that SLED 10.1 will become much more interesting. Who wants an office where every morning 100 machines play the same annoying, crappy sound... I, for one, would not enjoy it.
Hopefully this doesn't go in the final release.
Peace,
HT
This is sad, idiotic, and annoying. Why do they have to do this? There’s no specific reason. I disable all system sounds in XP, but I won’t be able to do so in Vista – I guess that’s just another reason why I won’t be buying Vista until I have to (for games). But, hopefully, by then, game developers will be porting their games to work on Linux.
I guess a workaround would be to replace the .wav, .mp3 or .whatever sound file that Windows uses, or to just delete it altogether… Unless I am missing something, and M$ have designed it so that the file cannot be modified or deleted?
How ridiculous.