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MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems
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."
Oh, I see,
as in "slightly pregnant" or "slightly dead"??
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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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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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How many lights are there again?
...buffering...
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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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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a rather old PC*
*Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB DDR
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Sure they can.
They just cannot run Vista at the same time.
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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?
Yes, but does it have AERO? Fuck no! Windows Vista wins, yet again! ;)
Whenever I want to play an mp3, I just turn my gigabit NIC up to eleven.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
No, they're three descriptions of the same OS in decreasing order of product experience.
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