In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

bonjour is very reliable and incredibly useful.

I have never run bonjour and never had any trouble finding devices on my
LAN.

the point is so you don't have to find the devices. the computer finds
them *for* you.

You don't need bonjour for the computer to discover devices on LAN.

yes you do. that's the point of bonjour.

If it is so reliable why does is routinely crash on Windows systems?

it doesn't routinely crash on windows systems or any other systems.

something else is the cause of your supposed crashes.

Purge itune and bonjour and issue resolves...

and all of the features and functionality that bonjour and itunes bring
go away.

not a good solution.

and the crashes you claim are pure fabrication anyway. roughly a
*billion* people use itunes without issue. it's one of the most popular
apps on windows (source: microsoft).