Microsoft calls Itunes for Windows 8 - 99mac

Windows 8 may not have been the success that Microsoft had hoped for. Many popular applications have been released for the new operating system, but a title is missing: Itunes.

first version of the iPod for Windows.

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Apple’s approach to # Windows has been split for many years. When # Ipod initially launched in 2001 was # Steve Jobs opponents to make it compatible with Windows and PC platform. His view was that the success of the Ipod attracted over more users to the Mac platform.

When Steve Jobs in 2002 finally allowed himself to be convinced that Ipod must work with Windows contributed the most to make the Ipod to the success of the product was.

Jobs joked about the launch of iTunes for Windows in 2003 with the words “ Hell froze over ” or “hell froze” as a comment to the seemingly impossible had occurred.

Over the years, Apple has been relatively generous in supporting new versions of Windows. Still supports iTunes for Windows all versions of Microsoft operating systems from Windows XP, which was released in 2001, and up to Windows 7, which was released in 2009. All versions except one: Windows 8.

Steve Jobs introduces iTunes for Windows

Itunes for Windows works also included in Windows 8, but this will require the user to run the application in the traditional desktop mode.

What Microsoft calls by Apple is that Itunes developed with support for the new graphical user interface in Windows 8, and that the application gets touch support for control via fingernedtryckningar directly to the screen. The users are running Windows RT can not run iTunes at all when Windows RT running on ARM platform, instead of the traditional x86 platform as PC machines, and also Mac, powered by.

“You should not expect Itunes on Windows 8 in the near future,” said Tami Reller, chief financial officer at # Microsoft to CNN.

Reller says they “rolled out the welcome mat,” but that interest from Apple is weak. He also admits that Itunes is far more popular than Microsoft’s own music app in Windows 8, Music.