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Apple's Windows Apps Not Ready For Vista
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.
This must be Solviet Russia because I don't think Vista is ready for Apple
The original generic sig.
Anna Nicole Smith was so grief-stricken over the loss of her beloved husband that, combined with the bad news that nothing is going to run on Vista, she just keeled over dead as a doornail! There are more details here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/08/anna.nico le.collapses/index.html
have not seen an interesting story on /. that I did not see on digg first. This is yet another /. story that is blown out of proportion. Have fun
That's all /. has been for years.
Everyone keeps going back and forth about what DOESN'T work on Vista. So let me say something positive for a change. Here's my review of Vista Home Premium.
I do a lot of virtualization in VMWare and I play a lot of demanding games. To that end, I recently bought a QX6700 quad-core processor and an EVGA 680i SLI motherboard. I'm waiting until next month to drop another grand on 2 8800GTX cards so until then I'm using my old X800 XT card. Everything worked fine until I installed ATI drivers for my video card. XP wouldn't boot up. It would get to the loading Windows screen and turn into garbage or go completely black. However it worked in safe mode and if I uninstalled the card before booting in to Windows normaly it worked fine, detected new video hardware and installed it. If I rebooted without first uninstalling the video card it would lock up again. It would work but I would have to uninstall my video card each time I rebooted. No thanks.
This gave me the idea to give Vista a chance. Since then every single piece of software I've installed worked. My list includes, WinRAR, QuickPAR, uTorrent, Newsleacher, VMWare workstation 5 with 98/XP/XP64/Vista64 guest OS's installed, Delphi, wget, Nero, Firefox, Photoshop, Reader, Flash, several MP4 codecs... the list goes on and on...
I've installed all the applications that I used on XP. I use the Windows standard theme and it looks just like it did on XP. Aero is a pointless waste of resources and thankfully I'm not forced to use it. I don't like to treat my desktop like a video game but those that want to can. The only things that look different in my daily routine is the Start Menu icon, Explorer and a few of the Control Panel menus.
I really can't see what the big fuss is. It's just the next step in the evolution of XP/2K/NT. There's always going to be changes in the UI. If you don't want be trapped by DRM, don't buy DRM songs and movies. I know that I don't plan to but then again, those that want to can. All the sleep options? They are all named descriptively and do exactly what I expect.
If you want easy HD, DX10, Desktop graphic effects, or more than 4GB ram in 32-bit mode then get Vista. Otherwise there's no reason to worry about it. I give Vista an 8 out of 10, it's hard to live up to the many years of stable XP usage.