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."

Comments

Re:M$ expected behaviour!

[RobertM1968]

Hi Richard...

I still use Z! (or CWMM) on eCS & Warp to play my MP3's... it is wonderful, and if Dink did his job on the Win version well enough, just as nice on Windows...

For those of you wanting a very quick, very small MP3 player (with stream support, OGG plugin support and more) check on Z! (http://dink.org/z/) - it s a great app. It doesnt come with a fancy GUI (though that should be easily writable even under Windows, as there are TONS of extensions and GUIs floating around for Warp for Z) though it does come with a great, easy to use text based, mouse enabled GUI, is tiny, fast and works amazingly well.

-Robert