Windows 7 Begins The Patch Process

Windows 7 Begins The Patch Process

Author JoeDigital

Microsoft, the Champion of OS patches, released the first patch for Windows 7 on Thursday, correcting a problem with editing a music file’s meta data resulting in the deletion of a portion of the file itself, among other things.

The patch, titled “KB961367,” fixes quite a few problems with the newly devised Media Center, and expansion of Microsoft’s tried and true Windows MediaPlayer, which is still a working component of the new OS.

The corruption flaw occurs every time when metadata is edited in an MP3 file, triggering to permanent loss of several seconds at the beginning of an MP3 track; however, the deletion is more prominent when the header size exceeds 16KB.

In addition, Microsoft also addresses some of the other issues with this patch, including improper functioning protected tuning sources, inadequate working of MHEG (iTV) in Europe, problems in performing recording operations by Windows Media Center, etc.

Furthermore, the patch also addresses recording issues for the systems that have been upgraded from Windows Vista, and problems in Windows Vista DVR-MS recordings that don’t play back in Windows Media Center or Windows Media Player.

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