Vista and iTunes Don't Play Nice Together

I installed itunes no probs, with vista premium. It runs just as it should.

And now for some monumental irony. I had been looking at new computers for awhile, but the catalyst in purchasing one now, was so I could finally load music on my ipod. (I had been running Windows 98 - and my computer didn't meet the minimum requirements.) My new computer has Vista. Sheesh, what a nightmare! And rotten tech support from Best Buy, where I purchased it. However, itunes has run with only a couple of small glitches - and their tech support is incredible. If only I'd have gotten a Mac.

As a software engineer, I can attest to the fact that moving applications to Vista is a pain in the arse. The security framework of Vista, while a step in the right direction, has vastly changed how applications install and run.

That and the fact that Microsoft was making so many changes right up to the last minute made us decide to hold off on upgrading our software for Vista. It seems that not many of our customers have upgraded yet anyway, so I think we have time :)

Umm...im using Vista Business and iTunes works just fine for me. Just as if i was in XP. It purchases and downloads music just fine and there is no problem with previously purchased music. The iPod interaction works just as it did in XP as well. I dont understand how people are having issues...Unless they have some weird setting on that i dont...Odd

#9 Vista has been in public beta for months and Apple had plenty of time to fix issues... take your tin foil hat off.

As for the Adobe shims, where is the publicly documented? It's certainly not the story Adobe is telling: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/vista_support.html

I'd place the blame at Microsoft's door. They bent over backwards to ensure compatibility with big name apps such as Adobe's, even writing many "compatibility shims"*1 to ensure a reasonably smooth experience.

The main issues I've had with Vista have been smaller software releases, ones where you can email the author(s) directly (which I've done as part of my patient waiting to get a decent Vista experience for all my programs) to alert them of needed patches. They were too small to be on Microsoft's radar.

The fact that Microsoft didn't QA iTunes suggests a lot about their marketing tactics.


*1 "Compatibility shims" are little pieces of code which detect when a program expects functionality of a previous OS instead of the later one, and route the expected API call appropriately.

It looks like Apple trying to leverage a monopoly on online music to the advantage of their computer business to me. And is it also a coincidence that despite Vista being available in beta when Filemaker 8.5 was released, its about the only business application that won't run on Vista?

I've been using Vista on my iMac since last Friday and iTunes installed, and authorized with no problems at all. The iPod also syncs and all that Jazz just fine as well.

Why would you want to use iTunes for Windows on a Mac, when the Mac comes with iTunes itself?

And yes, you can reformat your "Windows" iPod using the Mac's iPod firmware application, in effect turning it into a Mac iPod.

And if someone "got a Mac," iTunes for Windows would still break, whether via Boot Camp or Parallels.