*Source: News Blog (News.com) (
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-980...ag=nefd.only)*
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Yesterday, Microsoft's program manager for sound in Windows Vista (what a great title!), Steve Ball, posted a blog entry (
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...ng-issues.aspx) explaining why audio playback sometimes gets glitchy in Windows.
There's an air of post-facto justification about the posting--it basically reminds us that a PC is doing a lot more things simultaneously than, say, a $20 CD player--but toward the end of the post, he notes that it's common for certain older device drivers to lock out the CPU for 10 milliseconds to 50ms, causing an obvious problem.
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