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iPod And Vista Happy At Last!

Posted by on May 9, 2007 | 5 Comments

Well better late than never, right? Yes, I am thrilled to hear the news that the final fix for getting the iPod working in Vista has finally come to pass. To some degree, I think this is the beginning of a number of hardware compatibility fixes that will be coming down the line. Even though I do not use Vista very often these days, I know others who also use it enough that having a fix like this in place means less overall work for me (family repair guy, etc). Besides, technolgy frustrations can branch out over many operating systems as you may well remember from this piece.

So this brings me to the question of the day: What single issue (OS compatibility related) has you banging your head against the wall? For me, it would be Pocket PC synchronization (reliability of it) in Ubuntu and truly functional driver for my Kensington Bluetooth dongle in Vista. That would be my gripe(s), what are yours? Any OS, any item.

[tags]ipod,windows,linux,repair,itunes,hardware[/tags]

  • Randy Allen

    I also have a Vista incompatibility that is holding me back. It was time to replace a few computers for our business department, so here come the Dells with Vista Business on them. SAP compatibility, check. New Office 2007, check. New Acrobat Professional 8.0, where’s that PDF icon, well there is a work around, check. VPN….nope! The Sonicwall global VPN client will not install. They are working on it, but until then, all door security changes will have to be farmed out. So, anyone that need to VPN from offsite will have to delay their upgrades until sometime in the 2nd quarter, hopefully.

    My real gripe is Vista was in beta for months. Developers have had a year to work on stuff, but still we have issues. Did Microsoft make wholesale changes from the final beta or did all these vendors just sit around and not do anything? What gives? There is a lot of truth in the new Apple commercial about the Vista party. So true, so sad.

  • Matthew Casselman

    My peeve, peer to peer printing compatibility across OSes. Does it really have to be that difficult? In my case I have a Lexmark X1150 connected to the family Dell running XP. My new Dell running Vista Home Premium can see the shared printer but cannot print to it. Lexmark says it does not support peer to peer printing in a multi-OS environment. So now we’ve got to upgrade both/all machines to Vista. I don’t think so.

  • http://www.members.cox.net/mdn7779/rightclick/rccs.htm Mike Nelson

    As a tech, I have worked on many operating systems. I usually put backup files for a dump & reload on a thumb drive. This is where windows 98 and I tangle. I worked on an old computer that people wanted files off of it and transferred to their XP machine. The computer had no USB ports, plus it was windows 98 so I was going to have some hardships anyway.

    Solution: I just took out the hardrive, and replaced it into my portable drive case, and transferred happily for the next half hour until the customer had everything he wanted. That was a smiling day for me. lol

  • Anonymous

    Why not, it should

  • Anonymous

    “not very good”? Voice recognition on OS X is utterly putrid. I’ve been trying it every OS upgrade since Tiger and it has never gotten any better.