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From: BillW50 on 16 Jun 2008 17:59 Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html -- Bill
From: GG Willikers on 16 Jun 2008 18:14 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.
From: Postman Delivers on 17 Jun 2008 04:06 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
From: Daniel James on 17 Jun 2008 06:56 In article news:<4856e25d$0$30639$834e42db(a)reader.greatnowhere.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.
From: Conor on 17 Jun 2008 07:16
In article <1gK5k.1309$3q7.357(a)newsfe15.lga>, Postman Delivers says... > 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... Indeed. A 3 year release cycle, the same as all other Windows OSes apart from XP is real poor isn't it? > 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... > Oh. Dear. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |