Earlier this week, Microsoft published a list of 800 applications that should run properly on its new Windows Vista operating system. On its Web site, Microsoft says the number of applications certified for use with Windows Vista is constantly growing and that its list "will be update weekly."
Virtually all of Microsoft's own offerings are on the list. Also included are a host of business and security applications from vendors ranging from Intuit to Trend Micro. Desktop applications from Google made it in, but some of the world's biggest software companies, including Adobe Systems, IBM, and Symantec didn’t make the cut. Tech industry analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group blames the fact that IBM and Adobe are becoming increasingly competitive with Microsoft in the desktop applications market. Also absent from the list is any software from Apple. Enderle thinks Apple has purposely chosen not to make some of its more popular applications, such as iTunes, Vista-compatible.
View: Applications that Microsoft has approved for Vista
News source: InformationWeek
Virtually all of Microsoft's own offerings are on the list. Also included are a host of business and security applications from vendors ranging from Intuit to Trend Micro. Desktop applications from Google made it in, but some of the world's biggest software companies, including Adobe Systems, IBM, and Symantec didn’t make the cut. Tech industry analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group blames the fact that IBM and Adobe are becoming increasingly competitive with Microsoft in the desktop applications market. Also absent from the list is any software from Apple. Enderle thinks Apple has purposely chosen not to make some of its more popular applications, such as iTunes, Vista-compatible.
View: Applications that Microsoft has approved for Vista News source: InformationWeek
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware.
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware.
Don't make this about Apple when you have other large corporations like Adobe that also do not have their products ready. Adobe might be waiting for their CS3 launch for all we know.
Apple has sales at stake as well as any other company that has software for Windows, and for so many brands to NOT have drivers ready or just compatibility issues in general means that there's a larger problem.
As for Apple not getting their stuff to work, it's pretty simple, they're holding off as much as hey can until OSX 10.5 is out so they can then hope, and do they really hope, people will switch and never go to Vista.
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware.
Don't make this about Apple when you have other large corporations like Adobe that also do not have their products ready. Adobe might be waiting for their CS3 launch for all we know.
Adobe does have their Adobe Reader compatible with Vista...version 8.0.
No one needs that bloated Adobe Reader garbage when there's Foxit
Besides, Adobe Reader has a known memory leak issue on Vista.
Still they are the only one with an all-in one solution that is actually practical. It is just too bad that their software is not any good. It looks like a nightmare running under Vista. It may work in OSX but it is about time that Apple began to release products that actually look like Windows applications. Apple would do well to at least copy the color scheme of Windows Vista in order to make their products blend better.
If Microsoft released a version of the Zune that actually worked with Windows Media Player and support both Podcasting (within client) and Audible files I swear I would switch tomorrow. Hell, I'd probably put my ipod on the ground and run over it with my car a couple of times for good measure. This from someone who has been a die hard ipod user since 2002.
Maybe they did it so that people won't rant that MS locks Zune to WMP.
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