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Apple may have taken the opportunity of an iPod range refresh to encourage people to update to iTunes 8, but it’s not been all plain sailing – as users running Windows Vista have discovered. The latest build of the iTunes music library introduces the Genius Playlist, which aims to recommend songs from your collection based on their similarity to the current song. While this features isn’t without its niggles, it’s not the intelligence of the recommendation system that is causing heartache for iTunes fans – it’s a rather basic instability when running Vista.
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Apple has now published a fix for Windows Vista users whose machines crashed following one of its arguably deceptive software updates.On Wednesday, Ed Bott provided An inside look at Apple’s sneaky iTunes 8 upgrade, which “promises an update to iTunes+QuickTime and says nothing about any other software”. And there’s around 80 megabytes of it. Bott says:
Sep 14
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Microsoft this week unveiled the latest ad in its $300 million multimedia campaign to give the staid Windows franchise an image makeover. In the new spot, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld pose as lodgers in the home of a typical, middle-American family (albeit, one in which the grandmother wields a chainsaw and performs auto repairs). The reason: “We need to connect with real people,” says Seinfeld, who notes that Gates “is living in some kind of moon house hovering over Seattle like the mother ship.”
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