http://blogs.zdnet.</>com/hardware/?p=702
http://blogs.zdnet.</>com/hardware/?p=709
http://blogs.zdnet.</>com/hardware/?p=717
http://blogs.zdnet.</>com/hardware/?p=724
Looks like playing any sound in Vista will temporarily cripple your computer's ability to talk to other computers over the network, which includes the Internet as well for the most of you that use routers - transfer speeds drop drastically, even to 0 for a few seconds in the case of Windows making it's usual random sound effects
Especially great for online gamers
Lots of pretty pictures in those so you don't really need to read through it all
My favourite quote from Microsoft trying to defend/"investigate" these issues so far:
Originally Posted by
Microsoft
Please note that some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not. In certain circumstances Windows Vista will trade off network performance in order to improve multimedia playback. This is by design.
I guess I've been bored lately what with posting 10000000% more threads than I usually do due to reading more of
other stuff online
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