Apple release iPod for Windows
Posted by me101 on 05 August 2002 - 17:49 · 3 comments & 234 views
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iPod for Windows - Good news for the millions of Windows users who own PCs with built-in FireWire (also known as i.LINK and IEEE1394): In response to insistent demand from PC users, the world’s best MP3 player now does Windows.
iPod fully integrated with the award-winning PC media player — MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus™. So every song you add or playlist you create will automatically transfer to your iPod.
Requirements: iPod for Windows requires a PC with built-in FireWire or a Windows-certified FireWire card and Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Home or Professional.
UPDATED...
Paul Thurrott, of Wininformant, has gotten info regarding SP1 release date and other details of this information.
Deliver Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) this summer. Smith said that the company is on track to ship SP1 this summer and later noted that the release will ship on or after August 28. XP SP1 includes a UI change that lets end users and PC makers hide access to five key middleware components--Internet Explorer (IE), Outlook Express, Windows Media Player (WMP), Windows Messenger, and Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (VM). Based on feedback from beta testers, PC makers, and the DOJ, Microsoft will make additional changes to XP SP1 to make the product's middleware-hiding feature "even more clear to users."
Looks like there will be quite a lot of activity on or around the 28th August 2002... We'll have to wait and see...Disclose several internal interfaces, or APIs, in Windows. On August 28, Microsoft will publicly disclose more than 270 internal interfaces related to the five previously mentioned middleware components. Smith said that Windows uses these interfaces to trigger functionality that the middleware products expose. The company will release this information on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). "None of these interfaces have previously been disclosed," Smith said.