[kojoru]

They had a fun blog post about it back in the day: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/designing-...

[CamperBob2]

I guess the obvious idea of holding down the Shift or Alt keys to extend the boot time and/or bring up the boot menu was off the table?

[fortran77]

I think there's a problem of how the keyboard works and when in the boot process it's reset. With NVMe drives, the boot processes is even faster!