If you run Windows you really should not update to iTunes8. It could be an extremely bad thing to do and Apple are certainly playing in the filthy end of the pool by installing stuff you didn’t agree to. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=536.
It’s like they are trying to make people hate Windows for being unstable so they move to Apple machines. What’s the one app I have open at all times? Activity Monitor – because every single day apps “stop responding”. Just 2 days ago Safari – an Apple app – crashed and took the whole machine with it. Had to reboot. (And why is the ipod touch backed up verey single time you connect it? Because it crashes, And when yours does crash what should you not do? Restore from a backup. Spot the sense in there.).

So one of Apple’s EULA’s – this one – does not mention that they will hide stuff on your machine and potentially crash it using code they know will crash it. Another Apple EULA – the Safari 3 – does not mention it also installs other programs. No updates inform you that they are actually severe and critical security updates (because they want to pretend that OS X is totally secure unlike that crashing Windows stuff). But another EULA – that for Leopard – says “Please only use me once in one machine”. They lie and screw the user but they don’t want the user to screw them. Fair? No. Bet that’s locked down to a single machine in the next version.

Oh yes, Genius does not recognise AC/DC in my music to make a playlist. Because what Apple actually mean is this: “It creates a playlist not from your music, but from the music that can be bought from us.” So it is not your playlist. It’s theirs.