Most recent submissions by user "jimm"
Registered since: June 12, 2008
Network Folder / UPNP - totally not user friendly
UPNP was a great choice, but Vista's support for it needs a lot of work. If this is one of the technologies you are going to use to compete with iTunes, it should be "spit shine" polished. But it's not even close. The main problems (more...)
- Clean up the Network Folder interface
- Improve Help docs
- Make UPNP more reliable between computers on wireless networks
- Improve UPNP discovery, it's in bad shape.
- integrate Zune networking for those that go that (more...)
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Media Player Options controls overlap with non-standard DPI set
Most of the options tabs in Media player have major overlap issues when DPI is set to something other than 96.
Add DPI awareness to the interfaces.
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Search Icon in explorer corrupt with custom dpi set
This is one example of strange icon drawing anomolies when you have Vista set at a custom DPI level. (My dpi is set at 108). Note the search icon coruption in Explorer, for some reason this was addressed in IE7 which looks correct. You can see similar (more...)
Do what ever IE7 is doing in Explorer.
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Start Menu w/Custom DPI overdraws buttons past edge of menu
Note the start menu control buttons. (My DPI is set to 108)
QA Windows more throughly with non standard 96 dpi settings. You'll find a number of issues.
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IE7 Import/Export Wizard Violates Top 10 Vista UI Rules
The rules Micorosft lays out are clear - 97 wizards are no longer to be used -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511327.aspx#wizards
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Replace the wizard with a new Areo style wizard.
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