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

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

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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.

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 **** programmers who had to
have programs running as administrator in order to get them to work.

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BillW50 wrote:

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

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.

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:59:44 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

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


If true, I'd say they all can't be wrong and have good reason to do
so. I was going to switch OS's but after reading at least 90%
negative opinions, I decided to stay with XP. The improvements vs.
the incompatibilities (tho I understand it has improved) is not worth
the trouble to me. I just read yesterday or so, the only real
improvement is in security and that's about it and I think with 3rd
party security I'm in as good as shape as I'd be with Vista; hence no
reason for me to switch nowadays. I also read Corporate users will
likely skip Vista too.