Speaking of iTunes for Windows…

I was surprised that the software was only compatible with Windows XP and 2000. There are still quite a few folks out there running variants of Windows 98. I’m not sure whether digital rights management played a role in the decision to only port to Windows XP and 2000 or whether it was simply it would be easier to port an XP/2000 compatible version to Windows XP 64 or Longhorn.

My wife and I both own iPods. They are second generation versions made only for the Mac. Or so they tell me. The way I understand it, the thing that makes a Windows machine unable to read a Mac iPod is that the iPod’s hard disk is formatted in HFS+. That makes me wonder if a Windows XP machine running MacDrive can load up an iPod in iTunes. I might try that out this weekend to see if it works.