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Well, if it comforts you at all, the Windows team is hard at work on SP1!  :)

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RoadRunner, glad to hear you like Media Center.  Was it the Vista version? 

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I started at MS in early September but ran a large study on Media Center covering success rates, time to complete tasks, and where errors are made in the latest version.  I'm pushing some changes up to the managers and some UI changes will most likely be seen in the next release, though I'm not at liberty to say if that's in a service pack or Windows 7.

With all the criticism Microsoft gets (and believe me, I certainly give it too!), it's nice to know they value user experience.  Involving users in design makes software that much better.  :)

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Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new to this board, but certainly not to computers and the web (ah, I remember the days of slip TCP connections and using NCSA Mosaic...).  Anyways, my name is Jason, and I'm 29 years old.  I've been using computers since my dad brought home an original IBM PC way back when. 

My area of interest has always been user interfaces and how people interact with technology, which is why my educational background is in Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction.  In my past jobs I've done a lot of mobile design and usability at Nokia and Qualcomm in San Diego.  Flash forward to now: I'm a user experience researcher (also called usability engineer) at Microsoft in Seattle, WA.  The program I work on is Windows Media Center.  Day in and day out, I'm running studies or visiting users in their homes and getting to see how real users (not the software engineers) use our program.  The difference can be quite striking at times!

So, there you have it.  :)

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Looks useful!  I recently lost my Sandisk U3 drive, and have decided to go back to the "normal" drives.  It seemed that releases of U3 software were few and far between.  It's a niche market, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

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I'm currently using several copies of Vista (as an employee of M$, I kind of have to), and I've not seen the behavior you're describing.  I did a preliminary search of the Knowledge Base, and could not find any issues relating to your problem.  Was this an upgrade or fresh installation?

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