Well I m not sure about the 3rd Gen iPod, so I will not comment on that... but what I do know is that I have seen a lot of people post comment on yahoo answers claiming that iTunes is now compatible with vista. It s not entirely true, I have Vista Ultimate and have tried numerous times (and numerous ways) to install iTunes on my computer. The apple website states that iTunes 7 is compatible with 32-bit versions of Vista. Unfortunetly Vista Ultimate is a 64-bit edition (I m not sure, but I believe that Vista Home Basic is the only 32-bit version of Vista). There is an option in the Vista OS that lets you set compatibility options, such as setting a program in compatibility mode with Windows XP (if it s a program that you know that will work with XP) but doing so has not helped with me getting iTunes to work. After messing with Vista a bit, I finally got iTunes to install, and now I am able to open it but It doesn t recognized my iPod when I plug it in. My final thought is, If you are thinking of upgrading to Vista and wish to continue using your iPod, install Vista as a dual boot option with XP (so that when you start up your computer it gives you the option to choose which OS you wish to load), or just stick with XP. I m sure that either Apple or Microsoft will find a fix for the issue, or that Apple might release a 64-bit version of iTunes. But for the moment, there isn t a fix.
Why not? To my knowledge iTunes has always been backward compatible.
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