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Apple's Windows Apps Not Ready For Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the day-late dept.

narramissic writes "A new Apple technical support document confirms that none of the company's Windows Applications are compatible with Vista. Affected applications include: 'QuickTime, the iPod shuffle reset utility, Bonjour for Windows, AirPort for Windows, the iDisk utility, AppleWorks for Windows, and Apple Software Update for Windows. The stand-alone iPod updater for iTunes 6 for Windows also isn't ready for Vista.'" The article refers to an Apple tech support document dated "today" (02/08) — without providing a link — but a search turns up only this one from 02/02.

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  1. Misleading by Adam+Zweimiller · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From my experience, Quicktime works fine under Vista, and I've used it extensively. The apple software update works as well. Perhaps they mean it works, but just isn't supported?

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    1. Re:Misleading by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No I think it has more to do with paying MS for the little bit of QA that lets them put the "certified for Vista" sticker on the box.

      I have a handful of old NES carts that never bore the "Nintendo Seal of Quality", and they worked fine too.

      This is just slashdot at it's lamest level of its-not-news-but-we-can-bash-msft-if-we-spin-it-is hness

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  2. Re:Not exactly accurate by Bastian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you.

    I don't seem to remember it being such a big deal when Microsoft was fashionably late to the porting-apps-to-OSX party. Their stuff (mostly) worked under Classic from day one. It was no big deal; folks barely even noticed.

    Comparatively speaking, this is making a mountain out of an almost imperceptible molehill.

  3. Re:There are two possibilities ... by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or how about 3) most major applications including many of Microsofts own apps dont have Vista support yet, and Apple simply waited like everyone else for Vista to actually be in peoples hands.

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  4. Re:Not exactly accurate by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    widely available documentation and SDKs from Microsoft that many other software companies have happily used so far
    These "many other software companies" apparently does not include Microsoft.
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  5. Re:Not exactly accurate by Trillan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't understand why Apple is being held to this standard. I can't remember the last time Microsoft Office didn't require an update to move from "sorta works" to "supported" following a major Mac OS X update.

    Likewise, I'm not blaming Microsoft here. The product I worked on until a few months ago isn't supported on Vista yet (something that's entirely unrelated to me being on something else).

    The point of pre-release software is to test that software. We use pre-releases to prepare for major changes, to report unintentional changes back to the vendor, and to build a list of issues to re-check and possibly fix in the final. Sometimes if we're doing something wrong that's being exposed, it'll get fixed right away, but we don't try to work around ever pre-release OS issue.

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  6. Re:Not Ready by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll see your camera and raise you a Laptop.

    I have Asus A6T bought new in October, covered in 'Vista capable' stickers.

    Asus do *not* intend to produce vista drivers for this model, Apparently a 64bit dual core laptop is 'obsolete' according to their techs.

    Asus suck.