That was the same type of response AT&T used to give their customers when they forced them to rent AT&T phones. If you don't want a phone, just don't subscribe to the service. Mind you, this was 20+ years ago when they had everything locked up.

Once they were forced to allow other phones onto their networks, then features were added to phones and so forth. In other words, there is (slightly) LESS giving you the finger.

Comcast (and other cable cos like Time Warner) have the worst customer service and they don't care, because you don't have anywhere else to really go. Verizon FIOS is not widely available and DirectTV and DISH can't give you (real high-speed) internet. You can get highspeed internet from Comcast and TV from DISH/DTV, but it'll cost you an extra $20/mo. because you didn't "bundle" it. They own the market and are using their monopoly to expand into new areas.

iTunes 8 isn't just a problem on Vista, it's buggy on Mac OS X too.

They pushed this thing out without real testing and spent way too much time on bullshit features like album covert art display and "Genius" up-sell feature.

How about making it rock solid to sync with iPods and iPhones -- you know, the main purpose behind iTunes in the first place. They keep grafting on eye-candy, but I think the architecture is starting to show its age.

Fact is, they should require a brand new iTunes with every new iPod. They should be using some plug-in mechanism to support new iPods. Come on. Of course, it wasn't designed with real extensibility in mind.

Apple needs to rewrite iTunes so that we don't have to always wait for N.0.1 release to fix all the nasty bugs they decided to ship with. Apple should be embarrassed over iTunes 8.