MS reacts on Vista review?
It looks like Microsoft could have found a way to react on the critical review that Paul Thurrott wrote a few days ago. The company is promoting the new OS at the National Association of Broadcasters convention being held this week in Las Vegas. MS needs to keep customers wanting Vista for at least ten months from now, so we need to believe that Vista makes the operating system superior in the delivery of multimedia. This would include several enhancements to Windows Media itself as well as expanded functionality within Windows Media Center. I don’t think they’re doing a real good job convincing the public, Bubba Murarka does it better;)
Because of the convention in LA, Betanews writes about Vista’s multimedia features:
Tags: media-center, Microsoft, multimedia, VistaIn addition, device roles will be introduced. Initially, peripherals will be grouped into three categories: general, music and movies, and communication.
This would allow for applications to route sound through a specific device:; for example, music could play through the computers speakers, while e-mail alert chimes sound in a headset. Additionally, enhancements to the digital audio processing will allow for higher fidelity audio.
On the Windows Media Center side, Vista will introduce the Windows Media Center Presentation Layer. This feature will allow developers to easily create applications that can take advantage of the “ten-foot interface,” as well as match the look and feel of Windows Media Center. WinFX support will also allow for further visual enhancement of these applications.
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1 opinion for MS reacts on Vista review?
David W. Nugent
Jul 13, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Overall my first experiences with MS Vista were VERY disappointing. For one thing MS released the product with hardly any backwards compatibility for drivers and for software (especially the help screens written for XP and past MS Windows OS’s. Some programs like Roxio that come bundled with Dell and other OEM’s did NOT even work (Dell did their own fix for it). Drivers, Drivers, Drivers - what can I say - there are VERY few out there that work properly (almost like MS did not even care or did not notify these developers about the release of Vista)??? Oh and un-installing and re-installing VISTA is NOT for the faint hearted, If you have to swap out MB’s, then be prepared to by a whole new OS (unless the BIOS Rev and Chipset are EXACTALLY the same). Even some MS programs such as MS Office with Publisher did not work properly (Publisher had its issues, after I un-installed the Business Contact SQL Manager and then rolled back the registry did I get to run properly). It really makes me wonder how a company like MS can make a product, get you to test it for them, then they sell it back to you and DOES NOT WORK. 6 months after the release I still would NOT push or sell VISTA to anyone. Why would MS not make the help windows backwards compatible, not let driver manufactures know about the release date (so they could be ready) is beyond belief. Dell even called it ME 2 LOL
David
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