Windows 8 support for iTunes 11

I have seen a bit of concern around iTunes support under Windows 8.
I have updated everything ready to upgrade a Win7 Professional PC to Win8 Pro
I have updated iTunes to 11.0.2 64 bit.
My question is....does the current version of iTunes (i.e. 11.0.2 64 bit) support Windows 8?
I am not doing a clean install of Windows 8, it is not practical at all...upgrade is the only reasonable approach.
I need iTunes for iPad & iPhone so it needs to work under Windows 8 before I upgrade
So would be interested in knowing whether latest version of iTunes does really support Windows 8.
It is a absolute show stopper for upgrading to Windows 8!

Had the same issue on Windows 8.1(x64) 8(x64) 7(x64) and Vista(x86) with the latest iTunes. Removing and Reinstalling all Apple applications did not solve it. After installation and starting iTunes i would just get the end user agreement and then nothing but iTunes.exe process is running as background process without the GUI being displayed. I did notice that after an hour or 2 iTunes would then be open but would immediately freeze when connecting my iPad.
Changed the properties of running iTunes.exe as admin in Win7 compatibilty mode.
So launch iTunes and wait till it eventually opens, do not connect your iOS device right away, but sign in with your Apple ID first.
Open preferences (iTunes seemed to freeze again but preferences window popped up after a couple minutes)
Unchecked the automatic sync.
After doing that I have been able to connect my iPad which I had already upgraded to iOS7 over the air. Which was risky as I do not have a MAC and iTunes is the only way to perform a restore if the upgrade would have failed.
But still 11.1 seems to be very unstable on Windows, I can imagine that Apple will focus on sorting the bugs in iOS7 for their own devices first but hope they will investigate the issue and come up with a solution later on, as I do think a substantial amount of iTunes for Windows users buy their Music through iTunes and it would not be wise of Apple to leave them in the dark.

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