It took them 18 months and 500 entries from which the final sound was picked and embedded in Windows Vista.Įven though the new startup sound is pretty good, just like with any other new thing, it will become old after a while and people will get bored with it and will probably choose to disable it. So they hired a team of 20 composers, sound designers, engineers, and developers to create the new Windows Vista startup sound. With the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft wanted to bring a new startup sound. This is the reason why, after a while, I chose to disable it. After years of using Windows XP, most people (including myself) got bored with the standard startup sound.
