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.

Comments

Vista isn't worthy of an Apple application

[wardk]

maybe Redmond hasn't grovelled enough?

Doesn't surprise me

[Bluesman]

Having had to help a friend set up iTunes and an iPod in windows, I can't say that this surprises me. The software barely worked under XP, and would render the machine unusable for minutes at a time when the ipod was plugged in/unplugged and iTunes was trying to recognize or sync with it, or whatever the heck it was doing.

I figured that whatever library they're using to communicate over USB, it can't be standard on Win32, as it brought the machine to its knees.

I couldn't believe the ipod was as popular as it is with such awful software support. After trying to get the damn thing to work properly for about a half hour, it had me desperately wishing for the standard "MP3 player shows up as a USB mass storage device so you can drag mp3's to it" interface.

Who pays hundreds of dollars for this crap?

iTunes not ready for Windows XP

[DogDude]

From my and my families' and friends' experiences, I'd say that iTunes still isn't ready for XP. Buggy, crash-prone, and a memory hog, it was the primary reason I dumped my iPod for a Sansa (I sync now with Explorer or Winamp). Yuck.