Mercury News – Fri, Feb. 02, 2007:
Apple has some advice for PC-based iTunes customers that are considering upgrading to Windows Vista: Wait!
In a support document updated Thursday, the company warned such customers that its digital music software has some compatibility issues with Vista, the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Among the known issues: Songs purchased from the iTunes music store may not play; contacts and calendar entries won’t sync to customers’ iPods; and customers could corrupt their iPod unless they eject it from Windows using iTunes.
It’s an apple fault, not vista.
You apple fanboys need to shut your yaps and go back to ILoveApple.com.
“That’s right, don’t upgrade to Vista! Buy a Mac with OS X instead!” – Apple
Please… If there’s a problem, issue a patch.
Why is it that so many BUY, by looks…If its pretty it sells…Dont matter if its a package of Dog do do, with a ribbon on it.
Gee.. software wasn’t fixed until the final version of the OS came out? Shock horror! OMG Apple must be evil!
Or – they waited until the final release to make sure the patch worked. Occam’s Razor and all that.
What’s more disturbing is the way Vista may corrupt iPods – that sounds like a fundamental problem in the way it handles USB devices…
Bah – Vista – pretty pictures, no substance. I plan to never install it on my laptop – xp works fine, the shiny parts will overload my integrated graphics chip, and the reworked UI needs reworked again. I installed IE 7 for the security improvements, but never run it directly (I use IETab from Firefox instead). I also refuse to install WMP 11 – I consider it a downgrade from 10 (they took out the quick access menu, and I can’t get to my music quickly anymore). Long and short of it, I’m doing what JCD suggested in his recent PCMag columns – switching to Linux – where I can tweak the UI to my heart’s content, instead of being forced to work with MS’s version of “user-friendly”
You know, both sides look like idiots. You’re both equally useless. “Blah blah blah is better than blah blah blah”. That’s all I see.
Grow the hell up you morons. They’re operating systems. Move along. Get on with your lives. Someone bashes the OS you use, why take it so personally? Why should you care what anonymous idiot on some random blog thinks of ANYTHING, much less something so trivial as an operating system.
Do you honestly think what you write here is going to change someone’s mind? “Oh wait, pedro doesn’t like OSX or XP, so I’m not going to use them”. Get real.
pedro -
“BTW how’s the mac flaw fixing count going this days?”
Gee, wouldn’t know. Too busy trying to keep up with all the new OS X viruses, trojans, botnets, etc, that have actually done anything to any real-world Mac anywhere at any time.
As of 1800 hrs, CST, Feb 4, 2007, the count stands at approximately… zero?
Isn’t the Win virus census approaching where they’ll need to start using scientific notation?
BWAhahahahahahahaha, &c, &c…
#19 you mean stand-by? It works great for me in w2k as long as there are stand-by compatible hardware in the systems. I.E. If you have something scsi, you can forget about it.
I got so used to Hybernate that I haven’t looked back.
#23 too late. ‘ve been asking that question repeatedly here already. And I’m sure someones else asked it before me. Have an answer you want to share?
#25 said: “…instead of being forced to work with MS’s version of “user-friendly”” You left out appliance. User-friendly appliance
And for those looking pretty, get windowblinds. Or better yet, their whole desktop skinning utility.
#26 Scott. I know my advices were taken into consideration by you. Keep using them.
I don’t like those OS’ you’re referrinf because I feel they (MS & mac) want to take me for a ride. And vista did nothing but make my suspicions turn into facts. You don’t feel like being taken for a ride? good for you.
#27 I thought I ask a mac familiar source for the info, but what was i thinking.
So, zero flaws huh? Then start rebutting this fabrications:
http://news.com.com/Apple+fixes+26+Mac+OS+flaws/2100-1002_3-6101192.html
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1232062,00.html
http://www.macminute.com/2007/01/23/apple-security-update/
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JTTJEWJN1WBEIQSNDLQCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197000236
Just with those four, I counted like 60, do I keep searching? Should I sing “Three blind mice”?
Isn’t it amazing how Nvidia gets slammed for incompatibility issues, but when apple does something wrong, oh dear Vista is flawed.
bah, apple products are such a gimmick
Ya, pedro, ya.
This potentially could do this, this other could possibly do that, some other might maybe do yet something else, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Zero have actually done anything to anybody’s Mac, anywhere. You could possibly win the Powerball jackpot, too. But if I were you, I wouldn’t put an order in for a Bugatti just yet.
“Of 4 million Windows PCs found to be infected with some kind of malicious software in the first half of this year, about 2 million were running malicious remote control software, Microsoft said.”
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Computerworld’s Stefan Hammond:
What operating systems were being targeted back in 1991?
Virus expert Mikko Hyppönen:
DOS, and Mac OS. In the mid-eighties, people thought that the computer virus problem was only a Mac problem, because back then there were zero PC viruses. Right now, Mac OS X: zero viruses, you don’t need an antivirus at all. And PC, 140,000.
CW: What percentage of viruses affect Windows OS?
MH: 99.99%. There are about 30 Linux viruses, 50 Mac viruses for pre-OS X, zero Mac OS X viruses, 83 Symbian viruses, and two Windows mobile viruses.”
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(pssst! pedro! -
BWAhahahahahahahaha!)
If I was Steve Jobs I wouldn’t fix iTunes for use with Virus, er, Vista. I would let the users of Virus see that their illustrious leader can’t make Win 2000k re-hash, er….Vista work right still.
Are Mac users smug?, no more than Bill Gates in that Times Newsweek interview.
#32 yeah, those patches are made by 5 guys paid by Steve Jobs ( tm ) to do useless work. Charity, because macos is flawless, absolutely flawless (say that with a vocoder).
How amusing to see blind macfans, it’s so hilarious. Don’t patch it, it’s just MS fans working inside mac to give bad image. There are no flaws (saying this waving hands).
Whenever you want to feel good about yourself, go to this link and give it a read http://secunia.com/advisories/23703/
Or better yet, keep living in ’91
Funny, IE7 currently has 3 flaws unpatched and safari has 4 . aaaaaaaaaaahhhahahahahahahahaha
Exactly what can you do with a mac that you can´t do on a pc? I mean, what´s the key selling point for a mac? Ease of use?… I mean, my socks do that. Why would I pay $2000 for socks?
Windows faces the toughest hackers out there everyday, I prefer to trust those who face a real challenge, than a bunch of smug bastards that make ads proclaiming security….based on what? Why would a hardcore hacker spend his time developing malware and viruses for a toy? Where is the money in that?
If you spend a month developing code to hack macs chances are you´re gonna break into some jobless fuck who makes podcasts…
macfans rationalize this no virus thing like ugly girls that no one hits on her.
Look, those girls are real easy. See all those guys behind them? what a bunch of tramps. Me?, no way, I’m secure becuase I don’t let anyone get near me (which roughly translate into “nobody likes me, but who cares!”)