I’ve seen several people ask why we choose to use all caps for when we don’t have cover art to display for an album:

The answer is that this design allows for consistent character spacing, eliminates issues with ascenders and descenders and it reduces localization issues for some languages.

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Windows Vista’s Media Center Not Ready For Prime Time, Paul Thurott takes a look at the last two public builds of MCE:

Much of what’s changed in Media Center Vista is quite good. For example, the UI is now oriented to widescreen displays like the HDTV to which my Media Center PC is connected, and content takes advantage of this horizontal real estate by moving left to right visually, instead of up and down in a text list, as in previous Media Center versions.

However…

Some of the changes aren’t so positive. In Beta 2, at least, performance is comically bad.

I’m certainly glad that he is enjoying some of the changes we made to the UI and I cannot disgaree about performance. Though, I can say it’s something we’re all witnessing every weekend when we take home interm builds to ‘dogfood’ and we’re working hard to fix the issues.

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