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MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems

Posted by kdawson on from the designed-that-way dept.

quirdan writes "With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not'; and that they are working on technical documentation, as well as applying a slight sugar coating to the symptoms. Apparently they believe an almost 90% drop in networking performance is 'slight,' only affects reception of data, and that this performance trade-off is necessary to simply play an MP3."

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  1. Typical by Etrias · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember folks, this is a feature, not a bug.

    Two plus two is five. War is peace. Rinse, repeat.

    1. Re:Typical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about lathering? How do you expect me to get clean WITHOUT FUCKING LATHERING!

    2. Re:Typical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How many lights are there again?

      ...buffering...

    3. Re:Typical by Adambomb · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wish more people preferred the finger reference to the lights though.

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    4. Re:Typical by vertinox · · Score: 1, Funny

      I see three red lights on my Microsoft 360.

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    5. Re:Typical by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm just tired of people acting as if the startrek episode was some sort of groundbreaking thing instead of a halfassed homage to 1984.

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  2. Internet is all that counts! by mishehu · · Score: 4, Funny

    First, we have not seen any cases where a users internet performance would be degraded, in our tests this issue only shows up with local network operations.

    So I see! All that matters is the Internet performance of the average user, which is probably what, less than 5Mbps anyway! How silly of me to think there would be a problem with say... trying to access a corporate file server to work with say really big data files? Wow, I'm really going to recommend Vista to my clients now!

  3. "..slight.."?? by biomech · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, I see,

    as in "slightly pregnant" or "slightly dead"??

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  4. Re:missing tag? by cp.tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just said a 90% performance hit to an unrelated system is normal? So where's the "defective by design" tag? Well, the article summary does state that

    Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not'

    All in all, the performance hit is obviously expected behaviour. I guess it's just the severity of the hit that's unexpected.

    They'd probably planned just a 70% performance hit, but we can see their software performs better than expected.

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  5. Enough with the Microsoft bashing by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody could expect Microsoft to come up with an OS that does two things well at the same time. That would be multitasking. We're decades away from the invention of computers that can do that.

    Networking is overrated also. It's probably just a fad that will fade away once we all get high density flash storage for our sneakernets.

    Music? If you wanted to do artsy iLife stuff like that you should have bought an iFruit.

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  6. Re:missing tag? by Original+Replica · · Score: 4, Funny

    All in all, the performance hit is obviously expected behaviour.

    Well of course they are expecting a performance hit, after all they aren't "just trying to play an MP3" they have to do 7 different DRM related processes while playing an MP3, on top of Sony's hack of your webcam doing a biometrics check to verify that you are the original purchaser. Seriously though, does the drop still happen if you play a DRM free MP3 on a non-MS player?

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  7. Re:Back in 1994... by Reaperducer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geez. Even the Commodore 64 can play MP3's.

    Windows can't compete with a 1 Mhz computer made in 1992 with 38,911 BASIC BYTES FREE
    READY.
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  8. It's the New and Improved Anti-Piracy by Tom · · Score: 5, Funny

    You see, they couldn't stop people from cracking DRM and copying music. And they couldn't stop people from going online and sharing their music. But, Billy has one last ace up his sleave: You can't do both at the same time! There! Ha!

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  9. Re:From the horse's mouth by freeweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    a rather old PC*

    *Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB DDR

    Holy shit, get off my lawn x 1 billion!

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  10. Re:M$ expected behaviour! by cp.tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given the power of even low end PCs these days (minimum spec Vista machines) its crazy they cannot handle both together.

    Sure they can.

    They just cannot run Vista at the same time.

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  11. Re:Parent is a troll. by El_Isma · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are you saying? Can't you see it's excellent backward compatibility? It plays Mp3 like you were on your old 386! How more backward can that be?

  12. Re:Same s***, different defect. by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 3, Funny

    emailing lies to children

    That may be the greatest line I've seen an AC post on here in my eight years reading this silly little website.

  13. Re:Same old song and dance. by Shemmie · · Score: 4, Funny

    You refer to Winblows, Windoze, and Windows. Are these three different OS's?

  14. Re:Back in 1994... by Mex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but does it have AERO? Fuck no! Windows Vista wins, yet again! ;)

  15. I would like to MOD you +5 Funny. by DrYak · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just beat my sig up.

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  16. Good workaround by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I want to play an mp3, I just turn my gigabit NIC up to eleven.

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  17. Three different OS's? by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    You refer to Winblows, Windoze, and Windows. Are these three different OS's?

    No, they're three descriptions of the same OS in decreasing order of product experience.

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  18. Re:Nice error, the drop is 10% by Digero · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fact is, on today's multi GHz, multi-core systems, a 10% drop in network performance would be outrageous for something as simple as playing an MP3 or other audio stream... 50% is ludicrous... and I can't even think of a word to describe what an 85-90% drop would constitute. Plaid.
  19. Re:Same old song and dance. by nschubach · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think GP's referring to Home, Ultimate and Business

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  20. Re:M$ expected behaviour! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You end up with a better computer.