Playing Music in Vista Drags Down Network Performance

[Lemur]

My favorite line from the article: At this point, it becomes clear that the process scheduler folks and the networking folks are bitter enemies and do not converse.

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Everybody knows that starting with Windows NT, Microsoft copied the networking stack from BSD Unix. Bad form, poor sportsmanship and all that, but it meant that the networking was pretty stable. I remember reading that Microsoft was throwing out the entire networking stack and re-writing it from scratch for Vista. And I remember thinking, "Hmm, that could go badly."

At least with a pirated clone of Unix, it worked as advertised. Reading about the shivs and hacks needed to square the circle in Vista makes my eyeballs ache.