HP to pre-install iTunes and resell iPods

Cnet is reporting here that Hewlett Packard will be installing the Windows version of iTunes and reselling HP-branded iPods, made by Apple.

Could bring a lot of new users to iTMS.

Steve Jobs says ""Apple's goal is to get iPods and iTunes into the hands of every music lover around the world, and partnering with HP, an innovative consumer company, is going to help us do just that," Jobs said in a statement. "As the industry balkanizes by offering digital music wrapped in a multitude of incompatible proprietary technologies, consumers will be reassured in getting the same unparalleled digital music solutions from both HP and Apple, two leaders in the digital music era."