March 27th, 2007
iTunes Now Works with Windows Vista (Sorta)
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
As Jimmy wrote earlier, iTunes and Windows Vista didn’t play well together, at least if you used the “Safely Remove Hardware” feature. Doing so could have corrupted your iPod. Some changes were made to iTunes 7.1, but as Apple indicated, it was a Vista issue. Microsoft has patched the issue.
Among several patches released for the new operating system was one designed to address iPod issues that have appeared. Users had complained that their iPods were becoming corrupted after using the “Safely Remove Hardware” option to eject the player. Source: BetaNews
We Say: Why the “sorta” comment? Unfortunately, we’re still waiting for iTunes and 64-bit versions of XP and Vista to work together …
Steve Sturgill says:
Add to your “sorta” list the continuing inability to play iTunes videos on a brand new, brand name laptop with plenty of speed and memory, and with on-board nvidia graphics, running the latest iTunes.
iTunes music functions seem to work fine, but videos, forget it unless you don’t mind seeing a terribly choppy slide show while the music plays.
Last night’s nvidia update from the Windows Update site only seems to have made the problem worse.
March 28th, 2007 at 4:27 am