Welcome to Ask TUAW, our weekly (mostly) question-and-answer column. First off, we’re back! Our intrepid question-and-answerer has spent the last month moving across the country and getting settled into a new place. Now, finally, it’s time to answer some questions! A lot has happened since our last column: Lion has been released, a number of new versions of the iOS 5 beta have been released, iCloud is nearing completion, and now iTunes Match is out in beta. Exciting stuff!
I’m sure everyone has lots of questions about all these things, so please ask them! We can’t have this awesome Q&A column without the Q, so go to the comments of this post and ask away. If you’d prefer, instead of asking questions in the comments, you can email your questions directly to [email protected], or simply ping us on Twitter.
For our first question, David asks:
I was wondering why Apple has killed support for WinXP for iCloud. Does this mean iTunes will no longer support it either? Is there a programming API that is only supported in Vista/Win7? Many people have older machines such as myself that love Apple products. What is the reason for dropped support (please don’t say only that XP is old). I’m sure there is a better answer than that. Until I can save some more money to buy a Mac I’m stuck with this older machine.
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