Vista team blogs about audio glitches
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| Yesterday, Microsoft's program manager for sound in Windows Vista (what a
| great title!), Steve Ball, posted a blog entry explaining why audio playback
| sometimes gets glitchy in Windows.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807976-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Their scheduler is broken too also. Vista -- piece of work...
Why Vista can't play music properly, blame placed on CPU, Vista innocent
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| Steve Ball, Senior Program Manager for Sound in Windows Vista, explains why
| Vista isn't to blame for the all-singing, all-dancing OS not being able to
| play music properly. Everything but Vista is to blame.
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http://digg.com/software/Why_Vista_can_t_play_music_properly_blame_placed_on_CPU_Vista_innocent
The vanity.
More bad news for Microsoft: Vista still sucks!
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=13751
Related:
Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS [or "Why Vista Scheduling is Broken"]
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| Critical optimizations such as zero-copy aside, there is no excusable reason
| why processing IP packets should so damagingly affect the system.
|
| [...]
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| Putting aside the larger problem for the moment, there are several issues
| with this solution. It prioritizes multimedia playback over networking
| performance, which, as the resulting clamor has shown, is not everyone's
| personal policy preference. It is almost assuredly a layering violation. It
| picks a fixed and hard-coded packet limit (ten per millisecond), which won't
| scale across different hardware—think significantly faster processors or
| substantially slower networking drivers. It ignores the commonality of GigE.
| And, finally, the solution is complicated, as the convoluted description and
| resulting bugs in the implementation demonstrate.
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/08/robert-love-backs-up-my-very-simple.html
Copying files across LAN with Vista is deathly slow
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| Copying files from my XP video capture pc to my Vista pc is 3 times
| slower than copying from my XP video capture PC to my old XP PC.
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/109009593831
The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a server
on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer
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| On a Windows Vista-based computer, when you try to copy files from a
| server on a network, the copy process may stop responding (hang), and
| you may receive a message that resembles the following:
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| Calculating Time Remaining
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| 0 minutes remaining
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931770
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