An Example of Microsoft Genius

[FlukeRogi]

Like me, you may have been wondering on how the boffins at MS have managed to improve the performance of Win7 over Vista. Well, I just noticed this in an interview by the BBC with John Curran of Microsoft, which gives a hint at their technical godliness..

"We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music."

 

[su1c1de]

Wonder how much time they could save if they got rid of the sounds all-together?

 

[TheCenturion]

Wonder how much time they could save if they got rid of the sounds all-together?

I turned them off once, and noticed no difference

 

[FlukeRogi]

I don't know about other people, but for my own sanity, system sounds are one of the first things I disable after installing Windows.

 

[Energize]

I don't know about other people, but for my own sanity, system sounds are one of the first things I disable after installing Windows.

This, nothing worse than the windows error sound blasting out while browsing the web.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I don't know about other people, but for my own sanity, system sounds are one of the first things I disable after installing Windows.

Silenced straight away.

 

[Macro]

Like me, you may have been wondering on how the boffins at MS have managed to improve the performance of Win7 over Vista. Well, I just noticed this in an interview by the BBC with John Curran of Microsoft, which gives a hint at their technical godliness..

"We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music."

1/2 a second on a 4 second shutdown time seems a reasonable %

 

[Locke]

I don't know about other people, but for my own sanity, system sounds are one of the first things I disable after installing Windows.

Yep same. Do you also edit the registry to affect the shutdown time too? killapp etc

 

[philjohn]

I'm more impressed by the re-architecting they've done in the GDI subsystem - they've parrelised it meaning 1 GDI app being slow doesn't affect all GDI apps.

 

[gillywibble]

This, nothing worse than the windows error sound blasting out while browsing the web.

Worst.Sound.Ever.

 

[NathanE]

I'm more impressed by the re-architecting they've done in the GDI subsystem - they've parrelised it meaning 1 GDI app being slow doesn't affect all GDI apps.

That's because GDI was deprecated in Vista and replaced with WPF/Avalon and the Desktop Compositor. GDI and GDI+ have just been compatibility layers (albeit, still very high performance) on top of WPF/Avalon since Vista.

 

[chumpit]

The windows login and log off sound drive me crazy, saying that the ubuntu login is starting to drive me insane.

 

[Skeeter]

The windows login and log off sound drive me crazy, saying that the ubuntu login is starting to drive me insane.

Is it still the random drums?

 

[FlukeRogi]

1/2 a second on a 4 second shutdown time seems a reasonable %

Maybe, but it was the fact that in an interview, and able to promote how Windows 7 does something better, that he resorts to saying how they cut a bit off the end of a wav file!

It could be that is the level of computing knowledge that MS attributes to the average PC using Brit. Then again, what am I saying... Some of the things people have asked me over the years...