* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Why Vista sounds worse
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>| Changes to how the latest version of Windows handles audio playback has
>| caused unexpected quality issues for musicians and consumers alike, reports
>| Tim Anderson
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/31/microsoft.technology
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> Wow! 6 years and sound got even /worse/. Not to mention the process
> scheduler...
So what's gone wrong? Our investigation suggests a combination of
wholesale changes to the way Vista handles audio, late bugfixes, and
problems in drivers written by the makers of soundcards.
It's normal churn.
Apple went through similar struggles with musicians in the shift to
OSX; but that was more than five years ago. Now it's Microsoft's
turn.
Microsoft's software-development process, in spite of improvement in
code auditing, is still broken. Why would they change audio handling
when they got it working well in XP?
The hubris of the programmer? Or the hubris of the manager?
"Vista still has promise," Borthwick [of Cakewalk] says. "Microsoft
needs to clean up the loose ends in Vista to make it deliver. I still
think it's possible."
. . .
Another weakness of WaveRT is that it only works with internal sound
devices, not external devices connected by USB or Firewire. Some
professional audio drivers bypass the built-in audio engine, using
Steinberg's ASIO or a technique called Kernel Streaming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2008/jan/31/billgates?picture=332309805
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