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The two things which I connect to my PC which are most important to me are my PocketPC phone and my iPod.  When I installed Vista on my PC I was confussed as I thought that I hadn’t installed it correctly or missed a step or something because I couldn’t get either of my items to be noticed by Vista - Hence, no updating my ipod with my latest music and my Pocket PC was useless as I couldn’t sync the calender and contacts etc.

Fast forward to this morning and both issues are made a little clearer to me.  Firstly, on reading the headlines it turns out that iTunes is not compatible with Vista and has issues with purchased music and also syncing with the iPod; an update will be available “within weeks”.  Great so no new music for me until Apple pull their finger out.  I mean, the Beta has only been available for what?  a year or so???

Secondly and this is aimed squarly at M$.  when I installed Vista there was an app in the control panel called Windows Mobile Centre.  From reading the Microsoft website this is the update to Activsync.  But I couldn’t get my phone to work - no way.   So again, I wake up this morning and windows wants to download and install ‘updates’.  Want to know what the update was?  Well it was the setup.exe file for the above mentioned Windows Mobile Centre.

Why do Microsoft insist on selling up products which aren’t finished?   Now onto the good news.  Lots more hardware and software drivers I need are becoming available, so Vista is at least more stable than it was when I initially installed it.  I still recommend to my clients and friends to wait for a few months before thinking about upgrading.