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When you do UX work, sometimes you have to worry about the strangest things…

I recently got a bug reported to me about the visuals in the sound control panel applet not being aligned properly (this is from the UI for a new Windows 7 feature): The problem as reported was that the microphone was aligned incorrectly w.r.t. the down Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:13 AM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments

Why does the Media Center volume control change the master volume, not the per-application volume?

This morning, Steve Robinson asked : Also, why does the volume control on Media centre effect the speakers, and not the per-app volume? The answer? It's all about the 10' experience. The Media Center team and the WEX Sound team went around and around Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 10:29 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments

Seen on the TV in "Larry's Lounge"

Just outside my office is a little "lounge" area - it's a sitting area with a couch and a couple of comfy chairs that's used for meetings. It's sort-of become known as "Larry's Lounge" or "The Larry Lounge". In the "Larry Lounge", there's a 42" flat screen Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:36 PM by LarryOsterman | 42 Comments

The dreaded "beeping death"

Anyone who's been at Microsoft for long enough (long enough to use DOS on a day-to-day basis) remembers the deadly "beeping death". The "beeping death" was an artifact of the MS-NET product that we deployed for networking here at Microsoft, and I was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:57 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

Beep Beep

What's the deal with the Beep () API anyway? It's one of the oldest Windows API, dating back to Windows 1.0. It's also one of the few audio APIs that my team doesn't own. The Beep API actually has its own dedicated driver (beep.sys). The reason for this Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 10:55 PM by LarryOsterman | 44 Comments

Windows Audio Quality Enhancements

In my last post , I mentioned the architectural thrust behind the Vista audio changes. I left off explaining how we're dealing with problem #2 - the audio quality issue (because it deserves an entire post on its own). There were a couple of significant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:54 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

Windows Audio Channel9 Video is up.

Robert Scoble's posted the audio team Channel9 video , in it, the GPM for our group goes over what the Windows Core Audio team's been doing for the past three or so years, and lays out some of the stuff that we've got in store for Vista. I am super psyched Read More...
Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 10:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
 
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