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60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten
Alien54 writes "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems, according to this report. In an effort to meet a deadline of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. Much more at the link."
Then why not fix the god awful music library?
It takes forever to search through a relatively large music database (>30Gb), completely grinding to a halt.
The music search is pathetic. You cannot search for tags across categories!!
It will only search individual tag categories for the typed phrase. Unless Beatles Help is the name of an artist, album, or song the pathetic search will not find it.
How anyone could release Media Center 2005 with the tagline stating 2005 with these capabilities is pathetic.
While I'm ranting, why on the search results (when they finally turn up) does it not state the full details of the results? Why do you have to click on the name of the song title before you find out who the song is by? The user interface is possibly the worst case of style over functionality I have ever seen.