Re: now playing audio file

In fact, Zach. I am really fed up with your lies about my misquoting you or
attributing your quote to "the team". Here is the exact text from my blog
article.

You and every other reader of this thread will see that the only reference I
make to the team is the accurate statement that they do not follow
Microsoft's own recommendation to use SQL Server Express Edition for desktop
database applications and that I stated, truthfully, that you had been on the
Windows Media Player team. You, on the other hand, mention "the team" in the
quote I copied from your own writings. That is all there is to it.

The quote is explicitly attributed to you and you alone. It matters not
whether I understand your meaning or intent. The quote stands on its own. I
didn't interpret it, I just quoted it.

[QUOTE from my blog]
What's wrong with the Windows Media Player library database

Let me editorialize for a minute here - after all, isn't that what blogs are
for?

Microsoft produces a fantastic and powerful database system called SQL
Server 2005. This is an enterprise capable database system that can cost as
much as 25,000 dollars a copy up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a copy
and can be installed on servers with anywhere from 1 to 64 processors.
Microsoft, very much to my amazement, has produced a free version of SQL
Server 2005 for desktop use that, for most desktop users, you would never
notice the few limitations (such as only one processor - afterall, do you
have 64 processors on your PC?).

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition supports fully logged database transactions,
fantastic backup support, and famous reliability and performance. The
database format for Windows Media Player has none of these features -
including the reliability or performance. Microsoft recommends using SQL
Server 2005 Express Edition for all desktop database needs just as they had,
for many years before , suggested SQL Server 2005 Express Edition's
predecessor, MSDE.

For some reason, the Windows Media Player product team does not follow
Microsoft's own recommendations and they continue to use a proprietary
database system that can only be accessed through their provided interfaces
and that is notoriously slow and unreliable. In fact, here's a quote from
Zach Robinson, who spent many years on the Windows Media Player product team:

[QUOTE from Zach]
The team pays tight attention to this kind of thing. It's a fascinating
problem - dead libraries are typically non-recoverable and since they're
reflective in nature (not containing any reallly (sic) intrinsic value),
there's not much call to get them rolling again.
[END QUOTE from Zach]

[END QUOTE from my blog]
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