Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
Here is the rebuttal:
http://mediacenter.mattgoyer.com/archives/2006/04/20/1100
I think Thurrott has it right on balance. The work that is still coming
down the pipe puts the lie to any claims that Vista has been feature
complete in recent builds. With the scheduled new work, and changes
derived from beta feedback, there is realistically little time for any
of this to bake properly before shipping later this year.
I added my 2c on the Windowsmedia issue to Matt Goyer's page:
I think the changes in WMP11 are superficially pretty, but managing the
library became a lot tougher.
It's been hard trying to analyse the changes since the UI up to build
5243 has been very unstable.
The loss of drag and drop aggregation of tracks in the library does not
seem to have been replaced by anything new.
The Album Update feature seems to be unchanged, and there is still
little consistency in the naming & display of metadata fields from one
part of the UI to the next.
The picture management section is still a mess, particularly in the
absence of any separate management UI for images. Why would I want
thousands of album thumbnails intermingled with my personal photos?
There's nothing to help control multi-user access to a shared library
media files on a single PC. One user sets update preferences one way,
and another sets the other way. Each time they log in, the two sets of
preferences fight each other: renaming and rearranging tracks one way
and then the next.
Also, we're still stuck with 2-second gaps between tracks when burning
audio CDs.
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