Why no logo on bootup?

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When booting Vista, why is no logo present? Just a status bar? Is that
planned... or is that something to do with the RTM version?
 
Microsoft has requested graphic card manufaturers, BIOS companies etc. to
cut down on logo screens being displayed to improve boot time. MS did it's
share by removing the Vista logo screen as well.
 
Where did MS say this? I thought it was just to keep it simple, also, the XP
boot logo was a static one and the animated Vista orb that appears after the
splash screen makes the original intentions rather contradictory.
 
I bet it was for 'service pack' reasons.. Remember when SP2 came out for XP
everybody's "Windows XP Media Center Edition" or "Professional Edition" or
"Home Edition" logos reverted to just "Windows XP"? Keeps it simple for
patch deployment if they don't have to track logo screens with updates.

-Rob
 
There were probably a lot of reasons, neither of which I like.I actually
like a boot screen, and with every release of a Windows OS had hoped they
increased the quality of boot screens to make them more "friendly" and nice
looking.
 
I think its also a signal that the Boot screen is reaching the final
threshold. With new advances such as Ready Boost, Superfetch and improved
hibernation, I think booting up will soon become a thing of the past.
 
That's one thing that does go a lot quicker on Vista than XP - the boot
screen. The status bar probably only goes across the screen on my computer
at most, twice, and on XP, it has to go across the screen at least eleven
times. In addition, my Vista partition has more software installed on it
than my XP partition does at this point.
 
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