No iCloud for XP

Yes, many businesses small and large still use XP. I feel your wife's pain. I am very frustrated and in the same situation. I am a solo attorney and the icloud seemed awesome at first. However, I can't use it with my office PC. When I opened my practice in 2009 (bad timing), my IT guy sadvised that I needed XP because that was the most stable windows op system at the time.

In my case, if i want to use the cloud in the office, i would have to backup my entire computer and then reinstall every program after installing Windows 7. Not worth it to me. I would rather wait until the computer needs to be replaced in a year or two, so I wouldn't have to go thru this stressful procedure twice.

I have heard however, that with in 2-3 years, microsoft will no longer support xp at all. Maybe, thats part pf the reason Apple isnt offering the cloud with xp.

However, I can still use the cloud at home re my family media library.

Hi,

Evan you can Install Windows 7 without losing any data or having to format the system and install Windows 7 you can do the Upgrade Route which will cost a lot less and you wont loss anything.

XP can be updated to Vista and that can be updated to Windows 7.

XP to Windows7 is not possible. It requires to either format the harddisk or have Win7 archive the XP into a folder "windows.old".

But why bother with Windows 7 ? It's the same xxx as Vista and if you get a cheap vista business license, it will be supported until 2017. ( the home editions not : 2012 end of support ).

<quote>But why bother with Windows 7 ? It's the same xxx as Vista</quote>

Please ! do not waste peoples time with statements like this!

If they used XP Outlook <-> iOS syncro before icloud why they can't keep using it the same way as before?

''I have heard however, that with in 2-3 years, microsoft will no longer support xp at all. Maybe, thats part pf the reason Apple isnt offering the cloud with xp.''

This may be the case but still a large proportion of window user use XP especially businesses. Sure in the next 2-3 years support for XP will be withdrawn by which time most people would have upgraded.

I have Win7 at home, Vista for my office and XP on my netbook (vista was no good for Netbooks).

I use the net book when I visit clients as more convenient and has good battery life. Have always synced my contacts and calender between all 3 devices and Iphone using mobile-me with no real problems.

Just moved everything to the Icloud and now find I can no longer sync with my netbook. This is a very poor show and something that should have been given a lot more thought. I thought Apple would have learnt from the early problems when Mobile Me was first introduced.

Just decided to see if I could find out how may PC users still run XP. Found this article -

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-XP-Windows-7-Windows-Vista-OS-Market-Sh are-xp,11412.html

whilst is dated October 2010 this would still indicate that XP market share as an OS is somewhere in the region of 50% still - over half of all PC users.

This would indicate to me that there could be 30-40% of Iphone users who will not be able to access iCloud!!!!

I want to believe they will "reconsider" and do something to us XP users...😠

I dunno, a patch, a liittle app thingy that allow us to use some of the features(maybe not photo streaming but the rest!)

There are ways to make those features work. Search for it.

Would be helpful George if you could post a link!!!!

I don't know the rules of these discussion rooms concerning posting such links. Just search on youtube for "how to make icloud work on windows xp" I have uploaded instructions over there.

I am going to post in the hopes that the democratic process works. It is painfully clear that ioud should support xp, period. My hope is that apple will see the error in their ways and our pleas will be heard.

Interesting, so it appears Apple just restricts the MSI and it will run on XP. This does not surprise me and would guess is limited risk, as we are just talking about contacts here. Good post, think you just swayed me to get my first iphone. Last few gaps were a good sync with Outlook, last thing is making sure the icals make it onto my calendar when opened on my phone.

The iCloud setup hack for Windows XP:

1. DownloadiCloud Control Panel for Windows.
2. Open iCloudSetup.exe file with WinRar or 7-Zip and extract.
3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi or iCloud64.msi (for 64bit systems) with Orca.
4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table “VersionNT> = 600” to “VersionNT> = 200” and Save.
5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install.
6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want.

And you’re done.

Good luck!