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ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista
CWmike writes "Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the 'blue screen of death.' The errors began showing up immediately after updating iTunes to Version 8.0, which Apple released Tuesday as part of its iPod refresh. 'I just installed iTunes 8 over my iTunes 7 on Vista [and] now whenever I plug in my iPod, I get a blue screen death. Three times so far. Even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen," said a user identified as 'sambeckett' on the support forum about 90 minutes after Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up the iPod launch."
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The iPod being a mass storage device is true for pre-iPhone iPods. The iPhone and iPod Touch use a proprietary driver. Some people think this is so that nobody can hack the iPhone, but I believe it's for another reason. One issue for the iPod as a mass storage device is that it would upload all of the files, then upload a refreshed database. If the iPod got disconnected during a sync, then you don't quite know what state the files/database are in. With the new iPhone driver, they manage the database actively so that if you disconnect during a sync, there will be no ambiguity of state.