Featuring former Microsoft Lead UI Designer Jensen Harris and Sound Designer Matthew Bennett.Īpply for the full time Associate Producer position here. In this episode, we explore the forces that led to that decision, unpack how Microsoft channeled the music of language into their new UI sounds, and reveal 2 secret startup sounds that were nearly lost to time. Part 2 of our series on the Windows startup sounds picks up when Microsoft made the radical decision to kill the startup sound in Windows 8. This episode was written and produced by Fran Board.
