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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. missing tag? by v1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They just said a 90% performance hit to an unrelated system is normal? So where's the "defective by design" tag?

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  2. What!? by Jugalator · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apparently they believe an almost 90% drop in networking performance is 'slight,'

    Huh?? When? Surely not here if playing music anyway. That sounds like a bug, but is it a driver problem or exactly what?

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  3. Let me translate that for you... by hacker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "We are not at liberty to document the additional monitoring and DRM controls that have been imposed upon us by the United States Government and the RIAA/MPAA, and we cannot at this time, reverse these controls, without impacting our financial bottom line.

    Every play of an mp3 file is digitally signed, tested, and transmitted upstream to Microsoft's servers for review and analysis by the proper authorities.

    This policy is not subject to change at this time.

    Thank you for supporting Microsoft."