iTunes blues

I was happy to see that Apple released a windows version of iTunes -- I have been lukewarm to MusicMatch thus far and so now my iPod may have a new partner in crime. I haven't gotten around to installing it yet, but it appears I should hold off on putting it on my laptop until I upgrade to XP. As intimated to me by an audiophile friend, and corroborated by this article, the windows version doesn't always play nice with Win2k.

One of the most serious complaints came from a number of Windows 2000 Professional users, who said installing iTunes appeared to crash their machines... Patrick Nielsen Hayden, a science fiction book editor in New York, said he installed the Windows version on his PC but then was unable to use his machine. "On restart, Windows 2000 Pro got up to its "splash screen" — the screen displaying the product's logo. [It] got about halfway across the progress meter ... and froze solid," he wrote in an e-mail.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has criticized the new iTunes for limiting user's available choices. Funny, that.