Sleep Easy Tonight: The Startup Sound Can Be Disabled
on 09.23.06, 09:38pm in windows • Comments (4)
[Steve Ball via Scoble] Your collective voice truly made a difference in this matter, as we’ve incorporated a way for users to turn off the start-up sound when it’s more appropriate to boot silently — be it when you’re mobile, at home or in the office.
Really, is this what most folks would have spent their $100 feature-dollars on? (side note: personally, I can’t stand the ‘if you had $100 to spend on features, what would you spend it on’ excerise).
I would have thought the masses would have rallied for including a new font-picker dialog in Vista instead of the one that was in Windows 3.1.
Mark Erikson (September 24, 2006 @ 1:45 am)
Sadly, it looks like a new font dialog is low enough on the priority list that it keeps getting bumped back to the next version of Windows each time. See Michael Kaplan’s post at http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/07/02/654110.aspx for a good explanation.
Mark Erikson
Steve (September 24, 2006 @ 1:33 pm)
That’s a real bummer. Even if they updated the look and feel, that would have been an improvement.
Jason Silver (September 24, 2006 @ 2:36 pm)
You’re kidding!! VISTA STILL uses the same stupid font picker?
And I hate trying to manage fonts too– adding 100 new fonts when 30 of them are already installed is a PAIN IN THE ASS.
I won’t be switching to Vista. I’ve already started playing with Linux.
Jason
Randy (September 24, 2006 @ 10:07 pm)
What’s ironic to me is that the first time I’ve seen the Font Picker dialog was when it was blogged about… any fonts I’ve added I just copied to the Fonts folder. *shrug*