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mey on Jan 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Solid color desktop causes 30-second delay in Wind...

I moved my main desktop to Win7 this last weekend, I'm going to guess it has something to do with a untested edge case in the logic that rotates wallpapers in the background. There is a concept of themes, and part of that is rotating background images.

rbanffy on Jan 19, 2010 [–]

And... They are taking forever to rotate a solid color? Like it didn't occur to them to test a desktop without a picture?

That's some QA...

city41 on Jan 19, 2010 | [–]

I can't even imagine how incredibly enormous the test surface for Windows must be.

rbanffy on Jan 19, 2010 | | [–]

Imagine a planet-sized sponge...

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