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kennymix Author

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5 points

No iCloud for XP

This really is not a smart move here

I'm no windows fan but i'm upgrading my wifes iPhone up to ios 5 the problem is her company laptop is XP

She works for a massive american company who have sales teams worldwide

The whole workforce has lapops with XP on every machine

They have just introduced the iPhone 4 in the past year as the company phone ditching blackberries

Not supporting XP here for her company is going to be a disaster here no doubt by now most of them will have updated & now none of them will be able to use the icloud service

Thats just the wifes company how many other companies large or small around the world have rolled out the iPhone as the company phone still use XP

That means for this to work all those companies would have to upgrade to either vista or 7 or even go ovr to Mac

I dont think Apple relise here to do that would cost some companies millions

This needs sorting quick really

Posted on Oct 12, 2011 4:48 PM

24 replies

Nov 15, 2011 2:02 AM in response to DiveSerTan

I can confrim this works (this is a copy of what I've posted elsewhere). This gives you synced access to your me.com email (though you can also do that by setting it up as an IMAP email account see http://xlii.be/s/1ii for details), Contacts, Calenders, Reminders and Bookmarks. Photostream doesn't work.

Nov 15, 2011 2:35 AM in response to iorganutan

Thanks iorganutan! Couldnt find author of this original post but glad you appeared!

This is tested and works as stated above, shame about photostream 😟

Nov 15, 2011 2:41 PM in response to DiveSerTan

No problem. I don't claim to be the original Author as such, as it's just a clearer version of what I found here with a bit more info, and subsequently got it working myself:

http://f4os.com/icloud-control-panel-about-detours-on-windows-xp-also/

Erosis75

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Feb 25, 2012 2:37 AM in response to george265

Things like this make me feel that Apple is no better than Microsoft. With all the money they make on the iPhone they should really start to think more about the people that put them in that postition. LMAO ya right!

Apr 10, 2012 12:02 PM in response to kennymix

Issues like this is exactly why I waited so long to buy an iPad (or any Apple product), but I finally decided to give it a try, and bought one an hour ago. I run xp at home & at work, so its strike one & two already. Upgrade 4 computers to vista just so I can sync this toy?

NOT.