ICloud available for Windows Vista, but not Snow Leopard???

I have Multipal Macs with the Core Duo chipset that can not run LION and no $$$$ to upgrade hardware right now.
WHY does Windows VISTA get iCloud suport but I who can't upgrade to LION do not?
I understand leaving out Leaopard, but SNOW too?

With the removal of Rosetta in Lion and the requirement for Lion in order to use iCloud Macs are no longer an option for poeple that need to be able to run older applications.
Many places bought Macs because they could run just about anything, Windows, Linux, PPC software, even Classic applications via Sheepshaver.
The big issue is the loss of being able to run PPC applications. Freehand, Pagemaker, Framemaker, Quicken to name just a few applications that will never be ported. People and businesses have huge amounts of documents in these formats. It's not stuff that is used regularly but it is files that need to be accessed and sometimes modified.
All these applications can run on a modern Windows machine as can iCloud but not on a Mac running Lion.
While I'm complaining... I setup a bunch of Macs, iOS devices and some PCs all on iCloud today. The loss of email account syncing meant I had to spend hours setting up email on each machine ( each device had just under a dozen accounts on it) instead of just one machine and having it propagate to all the other devices. Going to be real fun trying to keep email rules in sync on all the Macs.

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I have been a Paying member of MobilMe and it's predecessor .Mac for over 8 years, and I cannot move to Lion yet because many
the professional Apps I use for business still don't wotk on Lion!
So when Mobilme expires this year I'm burned as far as Syncing all my devices!!!
I have been an EXTREME Mac advocate for years, but this is simply WRONG!!!
FIX IT PLEASE????

Bob_Douglas wrote:
the professional Apps I use for business still don't wotk on Lion!
Such as?
So when Mobilme expires this year I'm burned as far as Syncing all my devices!!!
You should be able to continue to sync all of your devices with iCloud. Some parts of iCloud work fine in Snow Leopard.

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I have upgraded my PC to Windws Vista. Tne main problem is that the ipod driver can't be found by windows.
How can I have my iPod work on Windows Vista ?
Thanks in advance for any help !

I'm also successfully using Vista and the 5th gen iPod.
Syncing music was no prob, but I got the infamous "error (-50)" and an auto-disconnect the first time I tried to sync video. I did not have disk use enabled, although Vista kept asking me if I wanted to "scan and fix disk errors" when I connected. I remedied the disconnects by:
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I have had icloud 2.1.3 running on my pc for years (up to tonight). I uninstalled it from my computer in hopes to update the software. Unfortunately, I learned that the latest version of the icloud control panel is only compatible with Windows 7/8. I contacted Apple support to re-download the software and I'm being told that there's no way to obtain a previous version. ***? Does apple honestly leave consumers of their products high and dry like that? Wow!
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I've tried many things... It must be something with my computer, cause i've tried it on another computer with vista and it works fine. When i run a diagnostic test all seems fine but ipodservice - com interface not properly installed. Has anyone the same problem? Does anyone know what to do?
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Error with windows vista but not xp

Hi there all,
IT have recently changed my computer to Windows Vista from XP.
i have lots of reports that were created pre transfer and they now dont work in vista.
it seems to be a common problem when a report containts "Date Job completed" it returns an error of "ERROR DURING SQL EXECUTION DA0003" so i assumed it must be a time out error and ameded the times in regedit.
however it still doesnt work. i cant see it being a date format as a simple report that contains "date job raised" works. its just these other date ones!
can anyone shed any light on the problem im experiencing? IT have now given me my old computer back to fix the problem but im gonna need to go back to the new one again soon!!
also, i assume it must be a setting somewhere that needs changing!?!?
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p.s. i use desktop intelligence XIR2.

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Are you getting the error message while accessing deski through infoview or just local deski.
If it is deski through infoview, Can you please let me know which version of Internet Explorer you are using.
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Backup of your registry settings, before making any changes.
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
For example, if you want the timeout duration to be 8 minutes, set the ReceiveTimeout data value to 480000 (<480>*1000).
Restart your computer.
Repeat all of the above steps on every computer that uses IE 7.
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Also, here is the link from Microsoft which identifies the issue-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181050/en-us
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I bought an iMac when my old Windows XP machine from Dell died last Christmas, and am mostly very pleased with it. I used Boot Camp to install Vista Home Basic on it also, because I still needed to run some Windows software.
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