iTunes and iPhone upgrade crashes Vista

On Tuesday, Apple released iTunes 8.0. On Tuesday, iTunes and iPhone software all over the world started to upgrade itself.

On Tuesday, Vista owners found that their computer crashed whenever they plugged in their iPod or iTunes.

As Slashdot says, now that's a killer application.

This is what security folks call a Denial of Service situation, and has had some high visibility examples. Accidentally doing it to yourself when you upgrade your applications is a good way to find yourself administrator of paper clips, not servers. This is the major reason that people don't like to patch, even (especially) when they have important systems.

So if you have vista, don't update to iTunes 8.0. Actually, it may be XP, too, so be careful.

And as always, the comments at Slashdot satisfy, this time with a riff on the "Hi, I'm Mac ... And I'm a PC" commercials:

"Wow PC, it looks like your Vista users are really having headaches running great software like iTunes 8. Mac runs them just fine."

"You son of a bitch." (Pulls out a gun)

"Whoa PC, whoa, let's not..."

BLAM.