Based on the statistics that Apple has been publishing, I'm not all that impressed with their sales model. 1 million Windows users have downloaded iTunes... Apple was previously selling tunes at 500,000 per week, and now they have sold 1 million songs. This means that they have had far more downloads of the player than they've had of people actually buying tunes? This is success?

"1 million within four days, and 1 million songs had been sold in the same timeframe."

That means they've had the same amount of songs sold as they have had downloads.

Leave it to Apple to bring locked up systems to the PC.

i think ms has that area pretty well covered...

Has anyone uninstalled this software and had symantec virus software issue an alert for 5 different viruses, including Trojan virus? I know of several people this happened to and I have not seen it posted anywhere, it even happened on my machine. Original software downloaded from Itunes site

Good one...

Seriously though, what was Apples marketing tagline for iTunes coming to Windows? They need an update in a week...thats irony for you...served with a side order of more irony.

Now you know why Apple decided 'clones' were a bad idea. It's almost impossible to create a piece of software for PC that will be compatible across the board. I'm surprised their haven't been more bugs!

It works great for me and about 6 others freinds,we all have IPOD's with WinXP ...no problems here :)

You obviously are not very informed on the matter of iTunes. There were hardly any bugs, mainly just for Win2000. And with any software, there are bugs in the first week (you think they aren't notified) Apple just came out with an upgrade before most companies would. Look at Microsoft they have a whole section on their website dedicated to bug fixes. It is a great program and has gotten rave reviews (not just by Apple users). I have also used it, and would definetely recommend it to anyone.

Yeah but MS doesn't gloat in ads that their software is the best thing to ever happen to their competitors OS'. If you do, you better make sure you make one damn good piece of software or like Apple, wind up with egg on your face.

No clue why people prefer this as opposed to winamp+some download program for mp3's.
Even tho its only 1$, i'd rather take the illegal road & get it free. Cause i can.
Good program for what its worth tho.

Got to agree with you about Apple's arrogance and marketing campaigns in general. If I'm ever going to "switch" it's gonna be because I feel the Mac offers me something I'm not able to get on my PC...not because some actors on a television commercial read their lines well.

It's funny if you look back to that early Superbowl Mac ad that showed all the PC people marching into an auditorium like drones. Fast forward to the present and it looks like the Mac users are the drones. They all use the same boxes with the same hardware and software. They wait years for processor improvements while other platforms run circles around them. Their options for customization are limited and they all worship the ground that Steve Jobs walks on. Mac is much more a mono culture than Windows.

Attyk - first of all, you may want to watch some more tv - you obviously have never seen a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 ad.

tomaras - secondly, "I feel the Mac offers me something I'm not able to get on my PC" that was an arrogant comment right there (if you were talking about arrogance. Even Bill Gates has admitted that both operating systems are based on different goals.

resi - I don't even know how to comment - just pray that the RIAA doesn't read these comments - you just admitted to a felony.

I agree completely about advertising and actors. They are all reading lines. The difference between Microsoft ads and Apple ads are that the Apple ones have largely over the years just tried to discredit PC's with canned switch statements, portrayals of PC users as idiots reading longs streams of arcane terms etc. I'm saying that Apple would have better results "coverting" me if they focused on what there machines actually do instead of wasting time with dancing iMac displays and drive drawers sticking out like tounges from machines that don't have much of a price to performance ratio compared to their competion. Statements like "Hell Froze Over" and "The best application ever written for Windows (can't remember the exact statement now)" are not created to sell Apple products to PC users but are instead there to appeal to Apple users and their drone like zeal in poking fun at PC's.

Annoyingly I had to redownload to get the new build. Check for updates didn't work - not yet I guess.

I also had to disable our firewall cache for the apple.com domain in order to stop various error messages when searching the music store.

Windows version takes a long time to shut down and release resources. Try closing iTunes then restarting. On my 2.66GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 7200rpm drive, WinXPP, it takes almost 30 seconds before I am able to relaunch.

Also we use My Doc's folders redirected to a file server, but I keep my music on a local drive. When I launch iTunes from another machine, it pickes up the libary saved by default in My Docs\My Music\iTumes but since the files only exist on my primary machine, won't play. Not a bug, but something to know.