{"id":93865,"date":"2016-07-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=93865"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:56:00","slug":"20160712-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160712-00\/?p=93865","title":{"rendered":"Why does the Windows 8 sign-in animation slide upward?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The early design for the animation that occurs when you sign in was to take your logon wallpaper and open it up like a curtain.<\/p>\n

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This worked well for nature photos.<\/p>\n

However, it is very common for users to put pictures of people<\/i> on their logon wallpaper. The likelihood of putting a person on your logon wallpaper is strongly correlated to whether you have children.[citation needed]<\/sup><\/p>\n

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It turns out that people don’t react well when they see their children’s heads cut in half.<\/p>\n

That’s why the sign-in animation is careful not to cut the picture into pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening like a curtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-93865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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