Apple Ditches Buggy Driver and Re-releases iTunes 8

After Apple’s support got plagued with “blue screen of death” crash complaints, Apple finally re-released iTunes 8 for Windows to roll back a very big bad buggy driver.

The “blue screen of death” crash bug infected computers running on Windows Vista only. And according to reports it was all due to an incompatible driver.

Apple earlier instructed Vista users to first uninstall both iTunes and an Apple-provided device driver. Only after then they can download and reinstall the 75MB fix.

Apple urged their users to download the new iTunes 8 version from www.apple.com/itunes/download.

Vista users reported the bug as early as Tuesday. Users who experienced the crashes said that plugging in an iPod or iPhone caused Vista to crash. After this a display of the “blue screen of death” (BSOD), a Windows critical error screen best known for its blue background is seen.

The critical error message pointed — “usbaapl.sys” in the 32-bit version of Vista, “usbaapl64.sys” in the 64-bit edition of the operating system — as the culprit. The buggy files were just replaced with the July 10 version of iTunes.

Source: ComputerWorld