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Windows 7 Reflections…

Today[1] Microsoft formally launched Windows 7.  I can’t say how proud I am of the work we did in Windows 7 – it’s been an amazing journey.  This is the 4th version of Windows I’ve worked on and I have never felt this way about a release of Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 10:53 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
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Win7 Whoppers

Wow, one of my co-workers just sent this image out. It’s totally awesome (IMHO)… http://twitpic.com/mehp6/full Edit: The image tag didn't work for some reason so I removed it and just left the link... Bonus: The first Win7 ad: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/21/multimedia/1247465293593/an-ad-for-windows-7-from-microsoft.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:39 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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Building a flicker free volume control

When we shipped Windows Vista, one of the really annoying UI annoyances with the volume control was that whenever you resized it, it would flicker.  To be more specific, the right side of the control would flicker – the rest didn’t flicker (which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:50 PM by LarryOsterman | 30 Comments

Elliot Omiya, Frank Yerrace and I make a video…

Charles just let me know that he’s posted a video that Elliot, Frank and I did talking about the audio features added to Win7 and some of the architectural decisions that went into it.   Enjoy! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:39 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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A quick run through the new Windows 7 multimedia audio SDK samples

As I mentioned yesterday, the Windows SDK is now live .  For the Windows SDK, there are 9 new samples (and one changed samples).    Two of the SDK samples demonstrate the WIndows 7 “Ducking” feature – they’re actually based on the code Read More...
Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 12:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments
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The Windows 7 SDK is live!

I just received email that the new Windows 7 SDK is now live !  Apparently it’s not on the Windows SDK download site yet, but if you click on the first link, you can download an ISO which contains the SDK.  For the Win7 SDK, I wrote about 8 Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:56 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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A few of my favorite Win7 Sound features – Stream Switching

Way back when I was in college, I learned Lisp using a derivative of Lisp called MACLISP (named for MIT’s project MAC, not for anything that came from a fruity company in Cupertino).  One of the coolest features that MACLISP offered was the (DWIM) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:45 PM by LarryOsterman | 29 Comments
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A few of my favorite Win7 Sound features – Capture Monitor (aka Listen to…)

The capture monitor is a feature that allows you to listen to a portable media player (or any other microphone input) through your PC speakers.    First a bit of history.  Way back in the dark ages (Windows XP timeframe), audio solution Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:30 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
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A few of my favorite Win7 Sound features – UI refinements

Well, we shipped Windows 7, and now I’d like to talk about a few of my favorite features that were added by the Sound team.  Most of them fit in the “make it just work the way it’s supposed to”, but a few are just cool. I also want to call out some Read More...
Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 4:08 PM by LarryOsterman | 64 Comments
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6.1.7600.16385

  ‘nuf said. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:10 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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Thinking about Windows Build numbers

There’s been an ongoing thread internally speculating about the windows build number that will be chosen for Windows 7 when it finally ships.  What’s interesting is that we’re even having speculation about the builds being chosen.  The Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:30 PM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments

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
 
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