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.
Gee, its not like MS hasn’t had vista available for public downloading and testing for well over a year is it! What the hell has Apple been doing all this time? Hell, if they can’t get their act together in over a year and make sure their cruddy little itunes app works, why the hell don’t they just license fairplay to MS so we can use the far superior media player software to sync with our ipods instead?
Pay attention folks – Apple released a fix to Virus, er, Vista.
used it for months, no issues. FUD by crApple.
#1 said: “Gee, its not like MS hasn’t had vista available for public downloading and testing for well over a year is it! What the hell has Apple been doing all this time”
They have been waiting for this to cry, as they always do, to give MS free bad publicity. The same way QT misteriously performs poorly on windows each time a new version of QT comes out, and then keeps the flaw as long as they can saying it’s not their fault. And don’t get me started with that virus-like behavior of QT that wants to start with windows everytime you open it
Oh, and the other reason: to give cheap arguments to macfans at trying to win a discussion, which they never can. Kepp trying though, it’s fun. BTW how’s the mac flaw fixing count going this days?
Conspiracy theories…they’re everywhere these days.
These comments sound more like FUD against Apple than the initial blog post does against Windows.
Well, it won’t bother me, I’m not using Vista in the next two years, nor I own an iPod nor I will ever buy downloadable music online…
Well, itunes works on my Vista fine, but will not work with my shuffle. But I am getting the same error messages that I was getting with RC1 a week and a half ago, and RC1 has been out for months. So either the problems with RTM are radically different then earlier betas (and poor Apple is valiantly trying to address things), or Apple has known about this for several months and have done nothing.
But we know that only MS is evil, and Apple would never distort or spread FUD.
#6 also nay on both counts here, but it’s so nice to see macfan defend what cannot be defended.
So, by this logic, if my XP mouse drivers doesn’t work on vista, logitech can blame that on MS. Or should I blame logitech? no, this would be the logical thing to do and that’s not the mac way, The mac way is think different, not logically.
Having been to half a dozen appliance superstores in the last three days (looking for a wii) and windows home premium is totally sold out at every one of them…
Mac fans and MS doubters..
Please stay away from me. I don’t want your brain matter on me when the cognitive dissonance of it all causes your heads to rupture.
Ha ha.
Why would someone install Vista now? The only needed part of it is DirectX 10, and there are no DirectX 10 games out yet.
Vista’s a dud, just like most of the people around here.
Since all of us have a duty to reduce our Carbon Footprint (TM) to save th world from Global Warming (TM) and OS X is there to save us all from MS, Jobs should be required to give all Apple products away or free. Since he selfishly insists on profiting from helping mankind, screw him – it’s all his fault.
#12,
The sleep function works on Windows finally! Woo hoo! Two second boot times!
13. “Two second boot times!”
Or you could leave your computer on all of the time and save two seconds.
I must say, I am happy about them finally fixing the sleep / boot thing, especially for laptops.
Vista’s a non-issue for me. My laptop can’t run Vista (older video chip on the motherboard), but is fast enough that I can run WinXP for a long time before the machine is out of date. iTunes will run just fine on this system for awhile too.
#13 you mean hybernate?
BTW proud MS basher since XP
Boo Hoo. Cires the little windows girls. The early adopters are going to have to wait a few weeks for a Vista Version of iTunes or risk Vista hosing their tunes and iPods.
No different than this from Adobe:
When Adobe began shipping Photoshop® Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 software in September, final versions of Microsoft® Windows® Vista were not available to complete the testing required to ensure compatibility.
Shortly after Windows Vista becomes available to consumers, Adobe plans to release updates for Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 to provide compatibility with Windows Vista.
Updates for existing Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 owners will be available as a free download from adobe.com, and updated Vista-compatible versions of Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Premiere Elements 3.0 will become available in the same timeframe.
#16,
No. I mean sleep.
#17,
I got your photoshop patch right here.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3569