View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/03/12/apple.hp.alliance.launches/ Friday, Mar 12, 2004 11:35am 'HP Music' goes live, Apple offers iTunes for HP HP yesterday launched a website for HP Music, its forthcoming music download service based on iTunes (part of the HP-Apple alliance). Apple also began offering an HP-specific version of iTunes for download for both HP and Compaq customers, according to The Register: "The 'special' HP/Compaq version of iTunes is version 4.2 of the software, as per the Mac and non-specific Windows versions of the software. The chief difference is believed to be code to allow Apple to track downloads made by HP customers rather than those of its own."