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Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar
Foofoobar writes "Due to a strike with the UK's postal system, people in Great Britain are getting copies of Windows 7 early and have already posted their experiences about the install process. Some have an easy time but others post installs taking 3 hours including Windows asking them to remove iTunes and Google toolbar prior to installation." The article indicates that many of these early users, though, are having better luck.
Speaking of people installing it...when does the beta stop working?
Whoa Whoa Whoa,,,
This is not forcing you to stop using iTunes as either your media player or for managing your iPod/iPhone.
Its just that APPLE does not know how to right compliant software and has been foisting USB drivers into windows that were buggy the day they *cough* borrowed them and haven't improved with age.
These lame Apple USB drivers were killing machines with certain types of HP printers attached and generally causing havoc. Apple was forced to release a patch.
To get things properly in line with Device Stage you need an uninstall followed by a re-install.
Its that simple. There is no conspiracy here. Calm down.
Stop the FUD.
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But why does this have to be the case with MS Windows?
I never had this problem on my GNU/Linux system. Nor have I ever heard anyone about this issue on Mac OSX.
Well, an OS which can't handle upgrades without a clean install is pretty worthless. Have you tried something with a real packaging system?
I've heard that Red Hat and FreeBSD have sometimes troubles with upgrades as well, but as a long-time Debian user, I never noticed any large-scale troubles. Nothing is perfect, but issues are limited to single programs -- like, PostgreSQL failed in its upgrade from 8.1 to 8.3 on every single setup I managed so I had to do full dumps/restores. In general, system upgrades work fine -- there's a server which had potato->woody->sarge->lenny without a single breakage.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
You don't have those problems because you don't DO anything with your pc and have few installed complex apps to break. You got lucky. This time.
Or
You do have those problems. But have no clue yet because the problem hasnt shown up in a way you would notice. Or associate with your upgrade.
At the very least you now have a few thousand useless files just wasting drive space which will eat into your backup space needed.
You do preform backups yes? No? See previous comment about not DOING anything with your pc.
You do realise that iTunes *uses* quicktime to play music. Quicktime is a library, not a player.
IME, this is at best only marginally less true if you install Windows fresh, or get it pre-installed.
There's no law against you being an idiot.
"Microsoft should have accepted a split into OS and applications companies a few years back."
Cause we all need more OS and application incompatibilities.
The article indicates that many of these early users, though, are having better luck.
Windows refused to install in those cases?
There is a workaround for that.
http://icrontic.com/articles/upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-retail
Indeed there is. You can find it here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Still using that Razr?
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You assume the only reason to run iTunes is to put music on an iPod.
Somehwere in excess of 70 million iTunes users just use it to sync thier iPhones. You really can't own an iPhone without running iTunes.
You would have known that if your cell phone was something newer than a razr.
The point I'm trying to make is that some products like the iPhone is so compelling that buyers will hold their nose and buy from abusive controlling companies like apple. Then they are locked in to crappy misbehaving software like iTunes.
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"The only thing that broke was Daemontools."
Something that really concerns me...
My biggest concern with Vista was what it took away, not what it gave me. In short, DRM.
What is locked out? Do P2P apps work properly? Are there unexplained phone-homes? Can I still play out-of-region CDs? Do I have to fight UAC like someone with Vista? Can I copy any standard file type on to any standard media?
Non-satisfactory answers to these kinds of questions are what kept me from ever even trying Vista. I can do all this on a properly configured XP machine. Can I on Windows 7? From my perspective, if I cannot do all these things, then Windows 7 is entirely moot. I'm not giving up capability for shiny things.
Anyone?
The funny thing is that in os-x as a average developer you can do all those things that itunes does yourself all with public api's. How is that for a supposedly closed platform. It is windows fault that you have to use undocumented api's.