Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it

BillW50

Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html

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Bill

GG Willikers

BillW50 wrote:
> Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html
>
New Coke is right.

Conor

In article <4856e25d$0$30639$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com >, BillW50
says...
> Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html
>
>
Old story. Actually the story was about shit programmers who had to
have programs running as administrator in order to get them to work.

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Conor

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Postman Delivers

BillW50 wrote:

> Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html
>
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Windows 7 is not that far off in the future, and then vista's days will be
numbered... XP is still a lot better in many areas, all the stuff you
purchased works with it... Windows 7 is reported to let you use your old
stiff again, it will run both vista and windows XP drivers...

Maybe no DRM will police be included in windows 7, only at release time will
any one have the answer on that front...

JR tyhe postman

Daniel James

In article news:<4856e25d$0$30639$834e42db@reader.greatnowher e.com>,
BillW50 wrote:
> Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html

Not surprised to hear it! The big increase in development for Mac
reported there (380%) is slightly surprising, but welcome.

I'm a developer. I don't ignore Vista (we test on it) but I certainly
wouldn't make use of any feature in Vista that would prevent my apps
from running on XP (or Win2k, for that matter).

Vista has useful improvements -- particularly in security -- that are
worth having, but nothing that couldn't be retro-fitted into XP (and
little that can't be done in XP OOTB). Almost everything else is either
eye-candy or evil pointless DRM.

Cheers,
Daniel.